The old roots are strong, and the leaves are more yin. ——[Song] Wang Anshi "Lonely Tong"

My hometown, Q City, is a small city with three districts and one county built on a mountain, and my perception of the city map as a child is a line, first the westernmost county is County B, then the X area, then the T area, and the easternmost area is the Q area. Because it is built on a hill, the T area in the city center is called "On the Mountain" and Area X is called "Down the Mountain". My grandmother's small village is in the middle of District X and County B, and my mother brought me to District T, and we are going to District Q where my grandmother's house is located, which is equivalent to going from the city to the suburbs.

Half an hour after the car drove away, the cornfields and groves on the side of the road began to mix with a few people, I guess it was almost there. Sure enough, the car turned into a small road behind a hospital, passed one, two, and stopped at the third. It is incompatible with the surrounding brick bungalows, not to mention a lot of height, the materials and shape are also a lot more elegant, unlike the surrounding houses are red bricks and red tiles, cement walls, cement chimneys, and even the platform extending from Fangshan is cement. The car was parked at the door, attracting a lot of onlookers, although it was not a luxury car, but it was rare to have a private car in our small city at that time.

After getting out of the car, my mother took the lead in knocking on the door, the door is not an ordinary wooden door, and the lock is not an iron lock on the nose of the door, the east and south doors of the house are locked iron doors, which are no different from the anti-theft doors of the building. The door opened, and the door was opened by a woman with a big waist and a round waist, this should be my grandma, although it is disrespectful to say so, but this is the most appropriate adjective I can think of, grandma's figure can not be said to be fat, but strong, probably used to seeing grandma's little old lady image of small arms and legs, seeing grandma's majestic body I really can't put the words of the old lady on her. "Ah, my eldest daughter brought my eldest grandson!" Grandma welcomed us into the house, "Xiao Liu is also here, come, come into the house!" Looking up, he looked up at the man who was walking in this direction, and Feng Fatzi waved at them.

When we all entered the house and sat on the kang, grandma casually closed the door: "Quick, the eldest grandson let grandma take a look, oops, when I was in your mother's arms, I was so little like a kitten in the past, but now it's so big!" As he spoke, he picked me up and groped up and down. I hurriedly called grandma, seeing that her legs didn't seem to be very convenient when she came over, and she couldn't bear to hug her, struggling to come down, she loved to help me for a while, put me down, and went to bring us fruit to eat, my mother took it while helping my grandma to the kang to let her rest, the man stood up and said to grandma: "Old lady, how is the coal that was pulled last time burning?" I'll go to the backyard and have a look. Just as he was about to leave, his grandmother got up and pulled him back: "Oh, Liu'er, don't look at it, it's good to burn." The man was pulled back to the kang, "Well, that's okay, I specially instructed you to pull the refined coal, and you will call Yanzi (1) when you are almost finished, will you still call last time I taught you?" Grandma stood up excitedly, went to the TV cabinet and took down something covered with a white cloth, and lifted the white cloth, "Well, just pick up this and press the number on the phone book, right?" "I also have a phone at home, and I have figured out my mother's mobile phone at home a few days ago, so it's not too unusual to see a phone now.

Mom walked around, scanned the rooms, and asked grandma, "Mom, where is Xiaowen?" "I went to the courtyard to play chess with your grandmother, I don't know when I will come back!" I asked my mother who Xiaowen was. "She's also grandma's child, my sister, you have to call her aunt. Let's go, you see your grandma, my mother has to go and see my grandma, and I went and saw a white-haired old lady called grandma, you know? Mom, let's go to my aunt's hospital for a walk! "Well, let's go, I'll go with you." Feng Fatzi, who had been quietly eating melon seeds and eating fruits, saw that everyone was about to go out, and he also stood up: "Then I'll go and stay in the car." ”

Turn right from grandma's house, there is a black iron gate next to it, the door latch is inserted, my mother is familiar with the road, her hand is inserted into the gap of the iron fence, and the latch is pulled open from the inside, "squeak", open the iron gate, and shout inside: "Auntie!" I'm coming! Bring the kids! Keep the dog on a leash!! A woman came out of the front room, opened the door and ran into the hallway, and after a few barks, leaned out and beckoned to us: "Okay, come in." "We walked through the yard, into the hallway, and finally came to the house.

opened the door and entered, it was the corridor again, the mother turned to the door on the far right, pushed the door and entered: "Grandma, I came to see you, look, I brought the child back, and Hengquan also came." On the kang in the room, there was a gray-haired old lady sitting cross-legged, a table in front of her, on the table was the Chu River Han Realm, red and green chess pieces were distributed on both sides, and a girl kneeling on the chair opposite sat "Big sister, big brother-in-law!" This is my eldest nephew! She greeted us who pushed the door in, and I quickly greeted: "Grandma, this is??" I looked at my mother suspiciously, "Ah, auntie." "The reason why I hesitated was because the girl looked like she was 10 years old at most, and I could never have imagined that this child was my aunt." Ao, little ...... Youngest maternal aunt. "Well, nephew, I'm your aunt." After answering, she shifted her attention back to the chessboard, obviously facing her grandmother, her chess skills are still shallow, and she is racking her brains.

My mother put me on the kang and pulled the man to sit down with me, and my grandmother looked me up and down: "Child, how old are you?" What's it called? "Wei Zhenpeng, 5 years old." Hearing the name, the man moved his buttocks, apparently absent. Grandma nodded, and instructed her mother: "Go, go and tell your aunt, let's have something good to eat today, and call your second sister, third sister, Xiaotao and his father." Let them look at the children. After speaking, he casually played chess again, ate the only car left by his aunt, shouted a general, and turned his head to watch TV with his grandmother who was sitting on the other side. Mom went out in response, and just halfway out, she came back and pulled up the man, turned back to her aunt and said, "Xiaowen, take your nephew to play for a while." "Then I walked out with the man.

My aunt pushed the table to the left, pushed it in front of me, got up and moved the chair herself, sat it back down, and asked me, "Do you know how to play chess?" I shook my head, "What about checkers?" I still shook my head, "What about backgammon?" "I've never heard of any of this, so I can only keep shaking my head." Oh, why don't you know anything, so what can you do? Do you want to play this? Shall I teach you? She pointed to chess, and I nodded. Starting from how to set up chess, what horses walk the sun and walk the fields, maybe my grandmother has bad ears, the TV is very loud, I am in the fog when I listen to it, my aunt looks at me confused, frowns, stares at the TV, stands up and holds the chessboard: "Let's go, let's go to the house to play." ”