Chapter 42: The Grass in the Free World
Cao'er also somehow, seeing her parents is like a mouse seeing a cat, once she is separated from her parents, she is like a little daughter-in-law in feudal society who is liberated, and naturally weaves her own life according to the nature of pursuing freedom and equality in her heart, quiet and excited, and very popular with the people around her, which even she herself did not expect.
Just look at Cao'er in the class, she seems to be a completely different person.
She is considerate, helpful, has a good relationship with her classmates, and also helps organize various activities in the class. Whether it is a boy or a girl in the class, the relationship with her is relaxed and comfortable, and she even sometimes chases and plays with boys. This is not the dull and wooden grass in front of his parents at all.
And the squad leader Ding Guangsheng, since he was punished for cleaning the boys' toilet for a month and witnessed her double hundred in mathematics and Chinese tests, he also avoided her from a distance, and no longer dared to stare at her with those white eyes.
Cao'er is not a person who does not give up. As long as he stopped deceiving people too much, stopped speaking ill of her, and stopped giving her white eyes, the dispute between her and him in the past would not leave a trace in her heart as if it had never happened. It's just that if he doesn't take the initiative to come to her, she won't take the initiative to deal with him - with so many classmates around her who are playing with her, where will she have time to think about those who deliberately avoid her?
On weekends, Cao'er often runs to the dormitory of those dormitory students to play, and when she sees the dried vegetables brought from home in the bowls of her classmates, she always shouts:
"Ah, I'll try the delicious dried vegetables too."
The classmates would always dry their clothes and say without looking back, "Eat, eat, eat." ”
These classmates are young, but they give Cao'er the warmth that her grandmother gave her when she was in her hometown. They became closer, and Cao'er invited them to her house, but they did not dare to go, but tremblingly pulled her to her mother during the holidays and begged very sincerely:
"Auntie, let Cao'er stay in our mountains for a while, stay in my house, I take care of her every day, and be with her. She wants to go. ”
"Well, I want to go."
With classmates by her side, Cao'er seems to be bolder, and she dares to raise her head and beg her mother.
"To your house?"
"Well, yes, go to my house, there are a lot of colored stones in the mountains, and the grass wants it."
"You're so far from home...... Who brought her back when Cao'er went? “
"Cao'er and I came back in the truck in the village in the mountains, stayed for a while, and when we came out to catch the market, we took her out and went home with us."
"Well, let's do that, I'll think about it first, and then I'll tell you if I let her go, okay?"
Cao Erniang looked at Cao Er's eager eyes, and then looked at the sincere classmate next to her, and she couldn't bear to refuse directly, so she said an excuse.
"Cao'er, do you want to go?"
"Yes, it's beautiful, there's a lot to eat, and there's a lot of beautiful colorful stones."
"You have to walk a winding road to get to them. If the big truck is sent to the foot of the mountain, you don't dare to go up, so you have to go up in a circle around the mountain, and go a long way, aren't you afraid? “
"I'm not afraid."
"Then how are you going to come back?"
"I'll take a truck back together when they get out of the city."
As long as Cao'er leaves her parents and goes to a place where she knows and is close to her, then she will not be afraid.
But Cao'er's mother considered that Cao'er's classmates were too far away, and it was inconvenient to live there and back and forth, and it would be disturbing to other people's homes if they lived for a long time. Cao'er's mother also understands Cao'er, and she does things like swallowing water, and she doesn't know if other people's families can bear it, so she still didn't let her go.
For this reason, Cao'er and her classmates were sad for a while. Children's hearts are always simple and simple, and they can't understand the many considerations of adults.
At the beginning of school after the summer vacation, Cao'er brought a large bag of colored stones to Cao'er:
There are white translucent, some purple, some cyan, and some green, each of which is naturally craggy, half the size of a fist, like a condensed mountain in the pocket given to the grass.
Cao'er said that she picked it up when the adults went to open the mountain, and there were a lot of them. Cao'er likes it so much.
These classmates from the mountains are extremely simple and hospitable. Their homes are dozens of kilometers away in the mountains, and they can only wait for the May Day, National Day, and winter and summer vacations such as long holidays.
At the end of the holiday, the children who will drive up the people who are on the way out of the mountain, and the children will also bring some special products from the mountain to school, such as wild small chestnuts, locally called hairy chestnuts, wild dried bamboo shoots, wild mushrooms and fungus fried peppers and so on.
It's no wonder that Cao'er will yearn for the mountains, a place where you can pick up treasures everywhere, it is naturally fun! Cao'er also fantasized about being able to go up the mountain with her classmates to pick wild fruits, eat them while picking, and find a grass with shade when you eat with a round belly, and count the tips of grass blades with your classmates!
Those students who have been admitted to the elementary school in the surrounding villages will be relatively happy, and they can go home for the weekend every Friday, and some can even go home for a lunch after school at noon on Wednesday, bring two cans of home-made chili fried sauerkraut, and return to school before the start of class at half past two in the afternoon.
Almost all of the things brought by these classmates will say hello to Cao'er and share them together.
Cao'er never took the food from home without authorization, and even if she ate it on the spot, she ate very little, so she rarely gave back anything to her classmates.
But all she can give is happiness. As long as I play with her, my classmates are very happy. When I encountered some small conflicts between my classmates, I knew what to do as soon as I talked to her. Everyone naturally realized that her character was good, and they didn't care about the fairness of eating, but felt that Cao'er could eat more of what they brought, and they were also very happy.
Cao Erniang actually does not prevent her from interacting with her classmates, as long as the quality of her classmates is okay, she can go home on time to eat, and finish some of the housework within her ability. Even sometimes, Cao'er's mother will choose one or two of her daughter's classmates who get along well, so that Cao'er is often invited to play and do homework at home.
If Cao'er didn't have the natural fear and weakness of her personality in her heart, she and her mother should be able to get along very well.
It's a pity that my mother is a quick worker, but Cao'er is a thinking type who thinks faster than her hands, natural friction is still inevitable, and Cao'er's inner fear has not been completely eliminated, so being able to be outside and be with her classmates has become her greatest happiness in school.
For this reason, she has also formed a lot of good popularity.