The next morning it was hazy, the rain of last night had faded a little, and the wetness on the ground was clearly visible. An Wan and her grandmother had a casual breakfast and then went up the mountain, the fog was so great that they could only see less than ten meters ahead, and the dew on the wild weeds growing on the side of the road wet their shoes, socks and trouser legs. An Wan has never walked such a mountain road, she has always been timid, even if she has a grandmother in her heart, she is still faintly afraid.

She suddenly asked her grandmother, what if there were wild beasts in this barren and populated mountain, she couldn't fight it, and she couldn't escape.

Grandma calmly replied: "This place has only been abandoned in recent years, people have planted crops in previous years, and there are still a few houses on the opposite mountain, but I don't know if there is anyone living now." ”

An Wan squinted her eyes and looked into the distance, but she couldn't see what her grandmother said, and she continued to ask, "Have you been there before?" Grandma stood on a high place and looked into the distance: "When I was young, I went with your grandfather to ask for water. ”

In this way, they walked slowly all the way, and the grandmother kept telling An Wan the stories of the previous village. The children next door are crying and shouting to eat the sour dates at the entrance of the village before the season, and the old cattle in the village give birth to calves, how do they roast it to warm it and save it. The first primary school in the village was built by everyone's hard work, and at night there were a lot of fireflies, and my grandfather put them in his pocket and took them to my grandmother......

She listened with relish, and sighed that it would be good if she could be born a few years earlier, and maybe she could come here with her grandparents to see the beautiful scenery at that time, but now things are different.

My grandmother's physical strength was much better than that of the average elderly, but it took too long to walk and climb the mountain, so it didn't take long for her to feel tired, but she still persevered. An Wan heard the sound of grandma panting, so she said, "Grandma, I'm tired, let's rest for a while!" Grandma nodded in agreement and then found a random stone and sat down, beads of sweat were already dripping from her forehead, and An Wan immediately handed her the water in the bag to drink. After my grandmother drank it, I sat down and continued to drink.

"Ah" An Wan let out a miserable scream, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in her hand, grandma saw that two fine blood beads slowly soaked out through her white skin on An Wan's hand, grandma hurriedly took her hand and looked at it, put away the nervous emotions just now, and said unhurriedly: "It's okay." ”

Grandma looked at the branches around An Wan, and sure enough, on one of the leaves, she found that the insect that had always been extremely ugly was just less than ten centimeters away from her, and An Wan obviously accidentally touched it and was bitten by it. An Wan looked at this bug, covered with hair, disgusting and unbearable to look at. "Late and late, this insect is called an octagonal bite, if you are bitten by it, you must kill it and rub its juice on your wound, so that you can be well."

The child wanted to vomit when she saw it, not to mention seeing the tragic situation after killing it with her own eyes, and she had to apply such a disgusting thing to her hands, she refused, even if her hands still hurt a little, but she could still bear it, it was better than really touching that kind of thing directly. Grandma also thought it was disgusting, so she didn't do that.

"I have been bitten by it before, and your grandfather immediately beat it to death and smeared its juice on my wound, but it was still not good, and then your grandfather said that this insect is not poisonous, one is to make me feel at ease, and then come to tease me by the way, I ignored him for three days after I knew the truth." Grandma's face was clearly smiling, but extremely bitter.

An Wan's heart also became heavy along with her grandmother's heart, "Let's go." An Wan helped her grandmother all the way forward, and after crossing the winding mountain road, there was an empty road, An Wan couldn't understand why her grandfather's tomb was so far away, and her grandmother told her that it was because the fallen leaves returned to their roots, and most people in Ningxiang would be buried here when they died. Even though my grandfather has been living in the city with my grandmother all the year round, he still doesn't like the hustle and bustle of the city, and what he misses most is the taste of his hometown.

The cemetery soon arrived, and there were many lonely graves, which had become overgrown with weeds because they had been left unattended for many years, and if they came here after dark, they would have scared people half to death. Grandma walked slowly to her grandfather's grave, her eyes slightly moist, but she soon restrained her fluctuating emotions, because she had clearly remembered for so many years that her grandfather had told her that she didn't want to see her sad.

Grandma took An Wan's hand and said earnestly: "Old man, I brought our granddaughter to see you, you see, our granddaughter is already so old, but it's a pity that you left early and didn't have a chance to see her." ”

An evening brushed off the fallen leaves in front of the cemetery, cleaned up all the weeds, and then handed the flowers to her grandmother, who placed them in front of the grave. The two broken silver threads on the temples drifted away with the wind, and her grandmother's face was already wrinkled after the vicissitudes of life, and even her movements just getting up seemed laborious.

"Old man, after so many years, you have left, leaving me alone, you can be over there, and I will come to see you next time." Grandma talked to my grandfather for a while and finally said goodbye to him, for people in their twilight years, seeing one side is one less side, grandma reluctantly left, step by step to turn back.

It's easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, this time An Wan walked in front, carefully supporting her grandmother, who was holding a stick she picked up, but her legs and feet were not very neat. Finally, I finally went down the mountain, maybe because my grandmother saw my grandfather, and since I came down the mountain, my grandmother has the same light in her eyes as before. More than ever, it has not changed its kind appearance for many years.

At night, the surroundings are terriblely quiet, even in the city sometimes you have to turn on the lights to dare to sleep, and now in this dilapidated little village, since the young people left one after another a few years ago, the wires have not been repaired, and now even electricity is a difficult thing.

In this long night, the candle was lit in a trance, and after a day of exhaustion, my grandmother had already fallen asleep, occasionally coughing, and she had been lying in bed all night, unable to sleep.

There was the sound of insects chirping outside the window from time to time, and An Wan was no longer so scared after listening to it. Suddenly, there was a faint sound of a cat's meow, An Wan listened carefully and was a little miserable, she wanted to wake up her grandmother to go and see it together, but when she saw that her grandmother was sleeping again, she couldn't bear to disturb her. So I got courageous, and I kept silently thinking in my heart that it was okay, not afraid, but it was just dark, and my grandmother was also there, not afraid.

Then she took a deep breath, patted her chest, held a candle in one hand and blocked the wind with the other, there was no light in the countryside, there was not even moonlight today, it was dark outside, An Wan pretended to be calm and soothe herself. She walked to the sound of the cat's meow, and it took a while to find the kitten in the corner of the mud wall, it was very small, and the hair on its body was white and a few obvious black, but it was all stained by the sludge, and An Wan stood the candle next to it and reached out to hug it: "Don't be afraid, little girl, I'll take you home." ”

The cat heard that someone was not screaming, and when An Wan held it, it was already soaking wet, it should have been wet by the rain, I don't know if it was lost or abandoned by the original owner, it was too pitiful, and it was unbearable. When Anwan brought it back, her grandmother had already woken up, so she made a nest for it out of hay, and the little cat no longer wandered the streets tonight.