Chapter 36: Days of Fear

Cao'er couldn't imagine the impact of her parents' sudden departure on her grandparents, uncles and aunts at home.

All she could hope for was that her parents and herself would one day go back to their old home, which was the home she identified with, or that would be the home she identified with, or that grandma would come to her, and then they would go back again, and the whole family would be reunited. She was looking forward to that day.

Grandma Cao'er did find Cao'er and Cao'er's parents after they moved, but they still quarreled without saying a word.

The father sat in the chair and was annoyed, the mother stood next to the father to help talk, and the grandmother sat a meter or two away from her son and daughter-in-law, scolding loudly.

Cao'er shrank in her room and stared at the books on the desk in a daze, not daring to come out, and she couldn't understand what these adults closest to her were arguing about, why they were arguing, and she didn't know what would happen if they quarreled.

She was just scared. She wanted to go out and see her grandmother, but she didn't dare. She wanted to persuade her parents, grandma is so old, she has to be forgiving and forgiving, how can she quarrel with her elders? She didn't dare even more. She was so scared that she didn't even dare to cry. These things didn't seem to be a big deal when she was fully grown, but at the time, they were mountains that could overwhelm her soul and suffocate her.

I don't know how long it took, but when Grandma was finally leaving, she walked to the door of Cao'er's room and said loudly to Cao'er:

"Grass! Grandma's gone! ”

"Hmm."

Cao'er answered in a low voice, looked back at her grandmother with red eyes, stood up, and sat down again. Grandma took one look at her granddaughter and left Cao'er's house.

Listening to the sound of grandma leaving, Cao'er's eyes became hot. She wanted to get up and close the door of her room, and wept well, but she was worried that her parents would be angry at her for closing the door for what she was doing.

After a while, I listened to some teachers who had just finished a meeting in the office at home. Her mother began to cook, and her father talked to the teachers in the living room, and Cao'er's heart relaxed a little.

"Bang bang bang!" There was a loud knock on the door. Although the grass did not close, his father still banged on the door vigorously.

"It's time to eat! Do you still need to be called when you eat? ”

The father screamed loudly, as if he was angry with his daughter.

Cao'er's heart trembled, and before she could recover from the quarrel between her grandmother and her parents just now, she had to face the faces of unfamiliar teachers at the table again, and her heart fell into more worry and fear again.

But there was no way, she didn't dare not go out. She was afraid that her parents would blame her for eating and not going out.

She had no choice but to come out with her head down, take a pair of empty dishes and chopsticks from the table, go to serve the rice, and then bow down to pick up the dishes in the gap surrounded by a table of guests.

I don't know if it's because of fear or clumsiness, her hands are shaking when she picks up the vegetables, and the soup of the vegetables she is holding drip into other dishes and on the table with the movement of the chopsticks. Another time, the chopsticks were not clamped steadily, and the dish fell into another dish, so she quickly picked it up and put it in the bowl.

Trembling, she finally grabbed a few chopsticks of food, she fled away from the table, and walked to the doorway to the corridor to eat against the balcony with her rice bowl.

There was no one in the corridor, even if there were people who walked by, they wouldn't pay too much attention to her, in the eyes of outsiders, she was just a little girl standing on the balcony of the corridor to eat, nothing special needed to look twice, and this was the most comfortable and fastest life for Cao'er - finally, she could put her mind at ease, not to worry about anything, just to eat the bite of food in her bowl.

"I don't know what's wrong with her, she can't even pick up a dish."

Cao'er's father said in the house with the teachers who were eating together. Maybe it's because I think my daughter is not generous enough and I feel a little ashamed.

"Xu just came from home, and I haven't seen so many people yet, so I'm still scared."

One of the teachers gave her a round game.

"She'd seen so many people the other day. It's not like I haven't seen it. ”

Father was still harsh, probably angry that Cao'er didn't think about him in her heart, but thought that her grandmother was like this.

Cao'er stood directly opposite the window. She heard the conversation between her father and the people at the dinner table clearly, and she felt some grievances in her heart.

But this feeling of grievance is very small, she doesn't care what her father says about her, she only cares that they don't quarrel anymore, don't be angry anymore, she'll be fine.

Of course, don't scold her when there are no outsiders in the house, even though they have never done it, but she is still afraid, and every day she is afraid that she will do something wrong because she has to be alone with her parents, and that she will be upset or blame herself. She'll be fine.

Indeed, the happiness of her parents is her greatest happiness. If there is an unhappy look on her parents' faces one day, she can't help but be cautious, worried that she will provoke her parents because of her own bad or wrong things. If that were the case, then the sky would fall on her, and she would be terrified.

But all this fear is hidden deep in her heart, and the appearance she shows is trembling, dull and inflexible. This can make the grass who takes care of her daily life girly:

I was originally a stepmother, everyone watched it, even if it was good to Cao'er, it was inevitable that someone would chew the root of the tongue, not to mention that Cao'er had to show such a trembling appearance, the family came and went, and was looked at and said, I can't say how vicious I am to Cao'er!

What made Cao'er Niang even more angry was that this Cao'er had to be called to get up and go to school in the morning. Obviously, there is a box of clothes, and I wear those two or three pieces to replace every day, and I have to pick the old ones to wear!

That's not all, a girl's family, all ten years old, is not flexible, can't do anything at home, does things slowly, doesn't say that they can't do it, even the floor is dirty and sweeps the floor, and other daily things, I don't know how to find it, let alone cook.

When Cao'er's mother is angry, she will loudly blame Cao'er:

"You're like a piece of wood, you move when you kick, you can't move if you don't kick!"

Cao'er was even more scared when she heard this, and she didn't know what to do and what not to do.

In fact, Cao'er is not lazy, she thinks that as long as she works at home, her parents will be happy. But she really didn't know what to do and what not to do.

You must know that she was with her grandmother before, and she always stretched out her hands with her mouth and clothes for food, so she didn't do any housework. Even if she fights together, she has her grandmother as a backing to tell her how to do it.

Most importantly, she doesn't have to be afraid. She just followed her own temperament, but she did everything very quickly and well, and even Cao'er Niang kept praising her at that time, saying that she did better than her little uncle Yunyi. But somehow now that she's with her parents, she's become so clumsy that even she doesn't like herself anymore.

Therefore, whenever she is with her parents, if she doesn't do something, she is at a loss. Only by doing something can she feel at ease. But if she does something and doesn't do it well enough, she will be blamed, but in any case, it is better than standing empty in fear.