(12) Home alone
Seeing that it was almost too late to take the bus to work, Shen Rumeng picked up Xiao Jingrou and carried the big bag on her back, and once again told Xiao Jingshu a few words uneasily, and then she asked Xiao Jingshu to quickly lock the door from the inside, and then hurried to work with an uneasy heart.
Xiao Jingshu, who locked the door, kept her ear to the door, and when she could no longer hear her mother's footsteps, the little one hurried to the window where she could see the path leading to the avenue. Xiao Jingshu climbed up to the windowsill with great difficulty to see her mother and sister again, but she could only see her mother holding her sister's back and getting farther and farther away from her. The lonely little Jingshu wanted to open her mouth to shout to her mother and sister not to go, but she still didn't scream when she opened her mouth, until she saw her mother and sister come to the end of the path and finally disappear in front of her eyes, Xiao Jingshu turned around with a sad face and slowly climbed down from the windowsill again.
Xiao Jingshu, who was alone at home for the first time, stood on the ground and looked around the house with her eyes wide open, and at this young age, she realized that the house she lived in every day was so "big", and she suddenly felt that she didn't know what to do all of a sudden. Thinking about it a little confused, Xiao Jingshu suddenly fell on the stack of books on the kang table, so she immediately climbed from the ground to the kang again, sat at the table and picked up the top one, and then left everything behind and began to look through it seriously.
I read page after page, turned book after book, and when the last page of the last book was read by Xiao Jingshu, it was already past noon. Xiao Jingshu touched her hungry stomach, and then remembered that her mother had told her in the morning that she had put the food on the stove and let her eat it when she was hungry.
Xiao Jingshu hurriedly jumped off the kang three times and two times, stepped on her shoes and ran to the kitchen happily. The lunch box on the stove was no longer hot, but Xiao Jingshu still didn't forget what her mother reminded her, and carefully put on the small gloves placed on the edge of the stove. As soon as she put on her gloves, Xiao Jingshu gently touched the lunch box with her little fat hand, and felt that the temperature of the lunch box was not hot, so she picked up the lunch box with both hands and happily ran back to the kang table.
Xiao Jingshu put the lunch box on the kang table, and opened the lid of the lunch box a little clumsily, and then she took off her little gloves, picked up the spoon inside, and ate it in a big gulp.
Because Xiao Jingshu is a good baby who is never picky eater, the meals in the lunch box were swept away by her after a while. The little one wiped the corners of her mouth with her hand and burped from eating too quickly, and then she climbed down from the kang again and put the empty lunch box into the steel basin used to wash the dishes in the kitchen.
Originally, Yao Zhiwen would go home to accompany Xiao Jingshu during the break at noon today, but because there was a sudden temporary matter in the unit and he had to deal with it, he was delayed by the incident at noon and did not have time to go home. Although he has always been worried about the eldest daughter in the family, Yao Zhiwen can only endure the worries in his heart and continue to work in the factory.
Xiao Jingshu, who stayed at home about her father and mother's work, didn't know anything about it, because she didn't know the clock and watch now, and she didn't have any concept of time at all, so her father and mother didn't come back, and she just thought they hadn't gotten off work yet. After reading the book and eating enough, the little guy sat on the kang alone and was a little at a loss, looking at the empty home and not knowing what to do. After racking her brains and thinking about it for a long time, Xiao Jingshu found the doll that her mother made for her with pillows and socks, and played with herself alone. After playing for a while, I suddenly felt a wave of sleepiness coming, so the little one hugged the doll and lay down in his small quilt and fell asleep in a daze.
I don't know how long it was, but the sleepy-eyed little Jingshu rubbed her eyes and woke up, and when she was finally awake and able to see her surroundings clearly, the little guy suddenly found that the room had become very dark at the moment. Xiao Jingshu suddenly felt very scared, she instinctively called "Dad" and "Mom" a few times but no one answered, so the little guy immediately felt even more frightened and cried loudly.
Poor little Jingshu cried for a long time with tears on her face, but she still didn't wait for her father and mother to appear, and suddenly thought of something, and the little guy gradually stopped crying, and then slowly climbed to the side of the kang and reached out to turn on the switch of the light. All of a sudden, there was a light in the room and it was no longer pitch black, and Xiao Jingshu's mood finally felt a little better, but she still felt very scared, because the sky outside the window was so dark that she couldn't see anything at the moment.
Xiao Jingshu immediately put her little quilt on her head and wrapped her little head tightly, because this would make her feel safer. But even so, Xiao Jingshu still couldn't get rid of her fear, and she was so scared that she kept looking nervously in the direction of the kitchen, because if a bad guy came in through the door, she would have to go through the kitchen to enter the room.
The more Xiao Jingshu looked, the more frightened she became, for fear that some bad guy would suddenly open the door, so she quickly turned her little head, remembering the small hemp rope that her father used to tie vegetables when he came back from shopping for vegetables yesterday. So Xiao Jingshu plucked up her courage, jumped up from the quilt and ran into the kitchen, and soon found the small hemp rope. The little one moved over the little bench beside the door again, and put her feet on top of it, and then she tied the lock with the little hemp rope very carefully, and tied it in knots after knots. It wasn't until the thin hemp rope was all used up by Xiao Jingshu, and the lock was tied tightly by her, which was simply airtight, that she finally felt that there should be no problem.
The little one got back into her little quilt and put her head on it, and then she stared intently in the direction of the kitchen, still a little frightened and did not dare to move. I don't know how long it took for Xiao Jingshu to finally hear the footsteps coming from outside, and the little guy was immediately so nervous that he didn't even dare to breathe again.
At this moment, Shen Rumeng's very worried voice came from Xiao Jingshu's ears: "Jingshu, Jingshu open the door!" Mom is back, Jingshu, did you hear me? ”
When she heard carefully that the voice was her mother's voice, Xiao Jingshu jumped up with joy, and she jumped to the ground at once, forgetting to put on her shoes. The little one trotted happily all the way, jumped on the small bench and was about to open the door for her mother, but what she could not have imagined was that no matter how she untied it at this moment, she would no longer be able to untie the little hemp rope tied to the lock.
Xiao Jingshu was so anxious that she immediately cried loudly: "Mom, Mom, I can't open it, what should I do?" ”
Shen Rumeng also became anxious when she heard this, and she didn't know what was going on, so she hurriedly comforted her daughter and said, "Jingshu, don't worry, take your time, how do you hang up the lock in the morning, you can open it!" ”
"No, I can't open it! Woo..."
Xiao Jingshu was so anxious that she cried, Shen Rumeng was also sweating at this time, and even Xiao Rourou, who was sleeping in Shen Rumeng's arms, was woken up by the voice of her mother and sister, and she began to cry.
Yao Zhiwen, who had just rushed home from work, heard the cry of his two precious daughters from a distance, and he didn't bother to close the gate as soon as he entered the yard, threw the bicycle aside and immediately asked his wife what was going on. Listening to Shen Rumeng's simple explanation, Yao Zhiwen patiently followed his wife and persuaded Xiao Jingshu, who was still crying in the house.
Xiao Jingshu gradually quieted down under the persuasion of her parents, and then she choked up and said that she tied the lock with a rope and couldn't open it now.
Yao Zhiwen listened to his daughter's cry, thought about it, and comforted Xiao Jingshu a few more words, then turned around and went to the neighbor's house to borrow a hand-drawn blacksaw, and removed the saw blade on the chainsaw.
Standing at the door of his house again, Yao Zhiwen loudly asked Xiao Jingshu to quickly hide a little farther back, and after hearing his daughter say that she had already entered the house, he picked up the saw blade and inserted the saw blade into the crack of the door A few times sawed the door lock. The lock fell to the ground, Yao Zhiwen immediately opened the door and walked towards Xiao Jingshu, Xiao Jingshu saw that the door was open and quickly ran towards the door, and suddenly rushed into her father's arms and cried aggrievedly. Shen Rumeng, who came in later, looked at Xiao Jingshu crying very aggrieved, and her heart was extremely uncomfortable, and she also shed distressed tears when she hugged Xiao Jingrou.
Yao Zhiwen hugged Xiao Jingshu tightly in his arms, and couldn't help but feel distressed in his heart, and comforted the little guy softly for a while, he took out a small packet of sugar cubes from his pocket, and then put the small bag in the palm of Xiao Jingshu's hand. This was specially bought by Yao Zhiwen for Xiao Jingshu when he got off work, and he wanted to use it to reward his eldest daughter for her bravery in her family, but now this bag of candy has become a gift to comfort the little guy's sadness.
Xiao Jingshu opened the small bag and saw that it was sugar, and immediately threw all the grievances in her stomach out of the clouds, and she immediately broke into tears and stopped hugging her father with a smile! Xiao Jingshu wiped her tears with her hands, and then took out a piece of candy from the small bag, she happily walked up to her sister and said, "Rourou, look, this is the candy that my father bought, let's eat it with my sister!" ”
Xiao Rourou, who was sitting in her mother's arms, was about to put it in her little mouth when she took it, Shen Rumeng quickly stopped with a smile and said to Xiao Jingshu: "Jingshu is really a good sister, she thinks about giving everything to her sister." But this candy cube is too big, and my sister is too young to eat it. These are all our Jing Shu alone, so you can eat slowly! ”
Xiao Jingshu nodded happily, and immediately put the candy cube into her mouth and tasted it beautifully. The two adults looked at Xiao Jingshu's cute little face with tears on it, and they were all relieved, so they let the two daughters sit happily on the kang and play, and they began to busy making dinner again.
The hot meal was put on the table, and the family of four sat around the kang table to eat and chat, and the tension, fear, anxiety and distress of the day all gradually disappeared in the talk and laughter.