Chapter 4: Returning Home

In 60, my uncle graduated from college and stayed in school to work. Uncle brought a lot of things home for the Spring Festival. My uncle is going back to school. That morning, my grandmother had just finished braiding me when she fell to the ground. My uncle squatted on the ground and choked my grandmother with his fingernails, and my grandmother soon woke up.

"Mom, are you sick?" Uncle asked worriedly. "It's okay, it's just a little flustered." Grandma stood up and pulled her hair together. "Mom, Yiyi should also study, you are in the countryside, I don't worry, or you and Yiyi will go to live at your sister's house. I'll talk to the captain. Uncle hugged Mom's arms and said worriedly.

"Hmph, your sister! You can go out and work with confidence. I know what to do. Grandma smiled and sat down at the dresser to cut her hair. The uncle let out a long sigh and said to himself, "Dad is too ruthless. ”

"What do you say? You've got your dad. Grandma stood up.

"No, I work with them now, and her wife has come to see me. They said they had no children, and they were willing to help me if I wanted to. I ......," my uncle said, and then he was silent.

"Sure enough, heaven is impermanent, and cause and effect have their own retribution. To admit it or not to admit it, only ask your heart. What does it have to do with me. Don't worry about my feelings. Grandma's tone was detached.

"Really? When I settle down, I'll take you to my house to live. You go to your sister's house for a while. The uncle excitedly stepped forward and shook his grandmother's hand.

Grandma had a teardrop hanging under her long eyelashes, and her eyes were shining, and she patted the back of her uncle's hand and said, "You should go." ”

After my uncle left, my grandmother handed me over to Xiuqiong's house next door.

On the third day, my grandmother came to the team and resigned from my position as a substitute teacher in the village elementary school and took me back to my parents' house in Linjiang City.

On that day, my grandmother put all the food in the house into her back, wrapped the clothes we were wearing in sheets, and handed me some small things in small bags for me to carry.

Along the way, more than 50 miles, stop and go, at noon my grandmother took out the biscuits that my uncle brought back from the provincial capital from my bag and told me to eat, the biscuits were delicious, but they were too hard, and my mouth foamed after eating a few pieces. Grandma sighed and said, "I'll be there halfway there." ”

When I arrived at the gate of the family compound of Linjiang Normal School, my grandmother took my hand and said, "Yiyi, you have to call people, put desserts in your mouth, and your mouth is sweet, so you can make people like it, do you hear it?" I nodded. Looking at the yard is so big, I haven't arrived for a long time. "Grandma, it's not here yet." My feet hurt and my stomach was hungry.

"Soon, soon, this yard is finished, just go in." Grandma wiped her sweat and said.

The courtyard inside was bigger, and it took a long time to stop outside before taking me by the hand and entering the house.

In the room, Dad was sitting in a wooden chair holding a book reading, Mom was coaxing her brother to play, and my sister was throwing her back to the door and threw herself on the table without knowing what she was doing.

"What are you doing here?" Mom looked up at us and asked in surprise.

Grandma wiped the sweat from her forehead, gasped and said, "Yiyi should study, it's still in the countryside, can you rest assured?" ”

"When did I say I let her go home to study." Mom gave me a disgusted look.

Dad put down the book in his hand, glanced at me, and said, "Of course she should come back to study." I told them to come back. Dad walked over to my grandmother and took the back from her back.

"Hillbilly." My sister suddenly rushed up to me and shouted. I was so frightened that I grabbed my grandmother's clothes.

Dad ignored Mom and took us straight to my sister's room. There are two double-opening glass windows on the wall opposite the door, which illuminate the room in the sunlight. There is a black lacquer desk under the window on the left, the chrysanthemum lamp makes me want to go up and touch it, and there is a double-open wardrobe next to the wall on the right window, and my father opens the wardrobe and says to my grandmother, "Tidy up your clothes and put them in the cabinet." The bed will be put on the bamboo board used for summer cooling. Dad pointed to the wall to the right of the door. Our bed was in an L-shape with my sister's cot. The room is very large, and it doesn't look crowded even with extra beds.

My sister stood in the middle of the room with her waist crossed, her mouth pouting high. As soon as she saw her grandmother open the wardrobe, she immediately jumped up and shouted, "It's my wardrobe, don't move." ”

"What's yours, I said, half of the wardrobe is set aside for your sister and grandmother. Mom, let's put up the bed and make it out. "Dad put us in my sister's room despite my mother's strong objections.

When my mother stared at her blood-red eyes and tried to stop it, my brother somehow fell to the ground with a bang, crying incessantly. Grandma stopped making the bed and froze. Dad said, "It's okay, it's common for children to bump into each other." Take half a catty of food stamps and five dimes, take Yiyi to eat a bowl of rice noodles and then go home to rest. After saying that, he took out the money ticket from his jacket pocket and handed it to his grandmother.

Under the guidance of the concierge, we soon found the Linjiang rice noodle shop opposite the dormitory. My grandmother bought me a tael of pork flour for eight cents, and she bought two taels of vegetarian flour for a dime. When we were about to eat the bowl, a waiter in the store sat across from us with a rag and stared at my grandmother. Grandma asked uncomfortably, "Is there something wrong with you?" ”

"It's okay, you look a lot like the young grandmother I know."

"Where did I come from, young grandmother, I am a poor middle peasant. Please, we're eating. Grandma straightened her clothes, replied unceremoniously with a straight face, buried herself in eating, and ignored him anymore.

I ate the rice noodles, looked at the old man, and thought, I hate it to death. I can't eat quietly.

"Master Liu, two taels of rice noodles." A waiter in the store called. The old man got up and left.

Grandma sighed softly and drank the rest of the soup from the bowl. I followed her example and drank the soup clean.

I have a full stomach and strength under my feet.

"Grandma, which old man is that?" I looked at my grandmother and asked.

"I don't know." Grandma replied unhappily. "Yiyi, are rice noodles delicious?" Grandma asked kindly. "It's delicious, I've never eaten anything so delicious." I replied excitedly. "You are obedient, grandma will take you to eat in the future. All right? ”

"Okay." I jumped to reply.

Soon arrived at Linjiang Road, Linjiang Normal University is in the middle of Linjiang Road, across the street is the college dormitory, the dormitory is not far from the college attached to the primary school, and the attached kindergarten.

My grandmother took me by the hand and said, "You have to look carefully, this is where you live from now on." ”

The road we are standing on now is called Linjiang Road, which is Linjiang Normal College, where your father works. Grandma pointed to a very large door not far away. Across the street, in front of the dormitory, grandma said this is your house, we walked in from the small door on the left, as soon as we stepped into the door, we saw a few half-sized children in a small courtyard in and out, through the small courtyard, up a few steps to the big courtyard inside.

The compound is high and wide, the concrete floor is spotless, and the gray brick walls on both sides protrude two meters apart, and our house is in the middle of the right side. The protruding place is the kitchen that each family has its own connection. The courtyard dam is wider and longer than some streets, and a few little girls are skipping rope in the courtyard. Grandma said, "In the future, you can also jump rope with them." ”

"Lan Lan, that's your sister?" A little girl pointed at me and said. "Hmph, hillbilly, I don't want such a sister?" My sister glanced at me and said disdainfully.

I looked at her and thought, I don't want you as a sister yet?

When I got home, my father held a book in his hand, as if he was reading it, and my mother said angrily, "It's okay, if it doesn't work, pull it down." Looking at them, my grandmother wanted to quit, but my father said, "No, you can come back." He turned to his mother and said, 'OK.'"

Mom turned her anger into joy, looked at us and said, "You should familiarize yourself with the environment at home first."

"Good, good." Grandma nodded and said a few yes.

"You look at your sons, I'll give them an explanation." Mom got up and took us to the kitchen first. The kitchen is not big, only a few square meters, in front of the house next to the window, put a rice tank, a water tank, a bucket and a flat pole hung on the wall, the five-grid cabinet made of bricks is full of plates and bowls, the cabinet is stacked with several pots, the outermost wall is placed on the honeycomb coal stove, next to the stove to set up a cutting table. There were dozens of honeycomb stoves and a bundle of firewood by the stove.

"Will you use a honeycomb coal stove?" Coming out of the kitchen, my mother asked my grandmother. "It shouldn't be difficult." Grandma glanced at the stove and replied.

"Hmph." Mom snorted through her nose. Then he said: "Every day, I have to pick two picks of water to be enough, and I wash my clothes and go to the Jialing River to wash." The water is at the main water pipe in the front yard and is turned on three times a day, so you have to fill the tank in the morning. Otherwise, there is not enough water, and now that there are two more people, I am afraid that I will have to carry water in the afternoon. ”

Then Mom took us into their bedroom, Mom's bedroom, and on the left wall of the door there was a glass-door bookcase, full of books, and the bookcase went straight to the ceiling of the house. I counted six squares, and there were books in them. On the side wall of the bookcase is a double-open glass window, under which is placed a large writing desk, on which is spread a milky white wool cloth, on which is placed a large hat with two sticks of barberry, next to the hat is a large pen holder, in which are inserted brushes of different sizes, a large wooden box containing many ivory-paste things, a large ink tray and a small porcelain jar containing water. A lake-blue lamp is placed next to the desk, and there are three drawers side by side under the countertop, one larger in the middle, and on both sides, there is a cabinet on one side and a small drawer on the other. At the corner between the bookcase and the writing desk is a bamboo-woven bamboo slab, which is filled with rolled paper. (Actually, it's a painting)

Under another window was a small dressing table with only a large bronze mirror on the top. Then there was a commode in the corner, and in front of it was a large closet with five doors. Two feet away from the wardrobe is their double-shelf bed, the left side leaves room for the wardrobe to open the door, and on the right side of the bed is a bed stool, next to the bed stool is a vertical cabinet one meter high and two feet wide, on which is placed a tea tray, in which is placed a five-pound water bottle and a set of fine porcelain tea sets. Under the bed, there is a white gauze cover on the shelf, and there are two neatly folded red satin embroidered bedding beds on the bed, and there are red-bottom embroidered mandarin duck pillows at the head of the bed.

After looking at their bedrooms, Mom said, "Remember, don't mess around, sweep the floor, or wipe the house in our house." Just empty the commode. ”

At this point, I have truly returned home.