Chapter 21: Nier's Life (2) (Celebrating the Signing, Plus Chapter)
The second uncle and the younger uncle's family lived in the south of the river, separated from the grandmother's house and the eldest uncle's house by a small ditch.
Yanni held the boat and went directly to the back door of her second uncle's house. The second uncle had already opened the door and was waiting for her. When my cousin saw Yanni coming, he quickly made a cup of coffee.
"After the start of the New Year, will you still come with me?" The cousin is the cousin in Changzhou.
"No, we plan to go from Nanjing this year, and there are classmates in Nanjing, so we just plan to go to Nanjing to have fun." Yanni took a sip of her coffee. In the countryside, few people drink coffee, and Yanni knows that her brother has specially prepared it for her.
In order to prepare for the high school entrance examination, Yanni asked someone to buy a few boxes of instant coffee from the city, and then fell in love with coffee.
"Then I won't wait for you!" The cousin took out a box and gave it to Yanni: "This is a gift for you, you open it and see if you like it." ”
Yanni opened the box, and inside was an imported Walkman: "Wow, that's great, brother, you're so powerful." ”
Yanni's own walkman was bought for 80 yuan in the wholesale market before, and it has been used for three years, the sound quality is not good, and it is very old, so it can't be used at all, and Yanni is planning to change it.
"On the day we came back together, I saw that your machine was too broken, so I gave you my own first, and I will buy another one when I go back to Changzhou." Brother is brother, growing up is different, Yanni is very happy.
"Thank you, brother." Yanni carefully held the Walkman in her arms.
"Let's eat at our place in the evening!" My aunt took out fried rice fruits to entertain Yanni.
"Grandma's side still hasn't finished eating, I'm going to eliminate them at night, otherwise they will be distressed if they are wasted." Yanni politely declined her aunt's kindness.
"I'll go see my uncle first, and I'll come back later." Yanni remembered that she still had something to do, so she walked next door with the gift for her little uncle.
The younger uncle's house is next door to the east of the second uncle's house, and Yanni is a little two steps away.
My aunt was home alone, my uncle went to work, and my cousin went to my girlfriend's house. Yanni returned to her second uncle's house after a few greetings.
I saw a large plastic bag on the table of my second uncle's house, which was divided into several small bags, which were full of all kinds of small snacks: peach crisp, hemp cut, golden dates, and peanut candy.
"Take it back to your parents!" The uncle patted the bag: "Remember to take it when you leave." ”
The second uncle was the village accountant, and when Yanni was a child, she read all the agricultural economics magazines at the second uncle's house. So it's closer to the second uncle.
"Uh-huh, okay!" Yanni is not welcome.
"I'm going to talk to my grandmother and grandfather." Yanni carried the bag, took the Walkman, stepped onto the boat, and swayed back to her grandmother's house.
Grandma is sorting out her purse, which contains her usual change of clothes. Yanni walked over to her grandmother and sat down.
"Grandma, what are you going to pack?"
"This apple, your uncle gave it to me last week, you will eat it later!" Grandma said as she took out the apple and set it aside.
"This bag of mints, it was given to your grandfather when someone came to get a haircut last time, you can take it back and eat it." Grandma brought out another bag of candy.
My grandfather was an old barber, and now that he is old, there are very few people who come to get a haircut, and he can't get two or three people's heads a week.
"This, the bread your cousin brought back, you said you don't need to steam it, there are still six left, you take it back and eat it."
Grandma rummaged through the small purse and found a lot of delicious food, some of which had expired.
"Grandma, you've been saving it for a long time, haven't you?" Yanni hugged her grandmother, her nose was sour.
"I don't remember, anyway, there are delicious foods, I'll keep them, thinking that you will give them to you wherever you come." Grandma touched Yanni's head, full of pity.
"Grandma, you don't have to leave it for me to eat in the future, you can eat it yourself, I can eat it when I go to school outside." Yanni said to her grandmother while eating candy!
"I know you have something to eat outside, but I just want to keep it for you, I'm used to it." Grandma repacked her purse and put it on an old-fashioned mahogany chair.
"What do you eat at night?" Grandma saw that it was getting dark, and was ready to start dinner.
"Just eat these dishes at noon, eat them hot, and cut a piece of old juice meat!" Yanni said as she walked to the kitchen.
The outsider gave an old man a haircut in the hall, and told the old man a story while getting a haircut: "The general trend is that the Bodhisattva went to Yunyou, and he came to Nantong." There is a mountain in Nantong, there is a white wolf on the mountain for a long time to plague the nearby people, the general trend to the Bodhisattva turned into a monk, go to this mountain to meet the white wolf for a while. Guess what......" Grandpa also sold a pass: "This white wolf can't recognize the true body of the Great Trend Bodhisattva, and the Great Trend Bodhisattva said that he would ask the white wolf to borrow a place to rest, and the white wolf said with a little contempt: 'How big can your robe, I will lend you as much space as possible'." ”
"And then?" The old man was attracted by his grandfather's story.
"Later, the Bodhisattva threw off his robe and covered the entire mountain." Grandpa patted the haircut: "Come, go wash your hair." ”
The old man obediently got up and went to wash his hair, and his mouth was still asking, "And then?" Did you fight a wolf? ”
"No," the grandfather continued to say while washing the guest's hair: "At that time, the white wolf was dumbfounded, but he couldn't speak, so he discussed with the Bodhisattva of the Great Trend" Grandpa wiped the guest's hair, and then returned to the barber chair.
"The white wolf said, I can go, but my name must be left. Therefore, this mountain will be called Wolf Mountain in the future. ”
Yanni was lighting a fire in the kitchen while listening to her grandfather's story.
Yanni has heard these stories since she was a child, and she has heard each story no more than twenty times, but she always feels that she never gets tired of hearing them.
Grandpa saw off the guests outside, and Yanni's food was also hot. The pretentious words of the sentence are: the lights are on.
The night in the countryside is quiet, especially in winter, so quiet that you can hear the sound of dead leaves falling.
After dinner, my grandfather washed the dishes, and my grandmother prepared a quilt for Yanni.
At her grandmother's house, Yanni slept with her grandmother.
They all said that grandma smelled of the elderly, but Yanni felt that grandma was the scent of her mother.
This night, Yanni hugged her grandmother and slept very well and soundly.
As soon as the next day dawned, my grandmother got up early to cook breakfast, my grandfather was doing radio gymnastics at the door, and the chickens and ducks outside the door were also crying happily.
Yanni rubbed her worried eyes and made a careful identification. Yes, this is home, not school.
After Yanni washed up, got dressed, and saw that her grandmother's breakfast was not ready, she decided to go out for two laps.
The air in the countryside is fresh, there is no reinforced concrete of the city, and there is no hustle and bustle of the city. On the road, I occasionally meet the uncle next door or the aunt of the neighboring village, smile and say hello, I don't know whose enthusiastic puppy is, naughtily follow the way, run fast will turn back and wait, take the opportunity to scare a chicken and chase a duck or something.
After running two laps, grandma's breakfast was already on the table, and while Yanni was eating breakfast, grandma had already sorted out two large bags of things and put them on the incense table.
"Take this back to you to eat, it's all pickled vegetables from me, your parents won't make it, I'll make it delicious." Grandma picked up another bag: "Here are the peanuts I peeled, you take them back and let your mother fry them, sprinkle some salt flowers, and eat them as side dishes, fragrant!" ”
Yanni drank the porridge while responding with a hmm-hmm.