The grass ran happily on the path like a bird that had been released. From the school home to her grandmother's house, it is about two or three kilometers to walk, uphill and downhill she does not mind at all, on both sides of the road are sprawling mountains, there are mountains overgrown with bushes, there are small hills flowing with red sand, there are crops and vegetables cultivated by people in the nests of the mountains. At his feet were all kinds of grass swaying in the breeze, there were dog's tail grass standing tall, there were small round-leaved grasses lying on the ground scattered like skirt lace, there were wild chrysanthemums with blue and white gradients, there were unknown little wild flowers that were pure and pure white, in short, all these were beautiful, the flowers touched each other in the sun, and the grass covered the ridges of the mountains and fields, pouring down, like flowing green velvet satin, and the blue-green canals lay quietly between the crops.

When she ran to the river at the edge of the village, she was reluctant to stop to pick up stones, but she quickened her pace and ran towards her grandmother's house. Passing by other houses in the village, my ears were full of greetings from the people of the village.

"Yo, isn't this grass?"

"Hmm!"

"Why, is the grass back?"

"Hmm!"

"Alas, Cao'er knows that she came back to see grandma!"

"Hmm!"

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The greetings and questions of everyone in the village, Cao'er answered in her usual voice, kept taking the next step, at most turned her head to look at the questioner, and smiled a little shyly.

Arrived at the gate.

"Grandma!"

Cao'er shouted hard.

Grandma Cao'er sometimes washes clothes by the well in front of her house, chops vegetables in the kitchen, or cleans the house in the living room. As soon as she heard her granddaughter's voice, she immediately stopped what she was doing, wiped her hands into her apron, ran over and hugged her granddaughter who ran over, and hugged her in her arms.

"Good granddaughter, you're back, grandma thinks you can't come back......"

Cao'er happily followed behind her grandmother and never left.

When Grandma went to feed the pigs, she followed to feed the pigs, Grandma washed her clothes and she squatted beside her to play in the water, and Grandma went to the vegetable garden, and she followed her to the vegetable garden.

Every time the grass says:

"Grandma, I'll help you!"

Grandma always said:

"Your body is very weak, what can you do, it's hard to come back, just rest well, otherwise when you go back to your house, you don't have to do everything?! Grandma's work, grandma doesn't have to work hard after it, you play with yours. “

So, the happy grass, no, it should be said that the grass that feels happier at this moment, carefreely surrounds grandma.

Sometimes, she squatted next to her grandmother and talked about school, sometimes she lay on the sofa in the living room and sang freely, sometimes she followed her grandmother to the vegetable garden that she was too familiar with, and when she was watering the vegetables, she danced in the wind on the ridge next to her—she inadvertently made up a complete dance along with the words in the song.

Years later, when she recalled, she wondered if she had an unusual artistic talent:

"Bamboo blooms

Mimi is lying

Counting the stars in Mom's arms

Stars, stars, how beautiful they are

Where is tomorrow's breakfast

Mimi, Mimi, please believe

We have not forgotten you

The moon hangs high in the sky

Tomorrow's breakfast is in my heart

Please let me help you as much as I help myself

Please let me care about you as much as we care about ourselves

The world will become a more beautiful place

Mimi, Mimi, please believe

We have not forgotten you

The moon hangs high in the sky

Tomorrow's breakfast is in my heart

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The sun comes out and hey

Illuminate me and illuminate you

The same air we breathe

This world is me and you

Live together

Please let me help you as much as I help myself

Please let me care about you as much as we care about ourselves

The world will be a more beautiful place."

The innocent grass sang the song "Panda Mimi" on the ridge while smoothly dancing her own choreography according to the artistic conception of the lyrics. People passing by slowed down their pace and turned their heads to admire with a smile, and even her little aunt Yunxiu, who was already in junior high school, asked her when she got home:

"I saw you dancing in the vegetable garden during the day, did your school teacher teach you?"

"It's not."

"Not really."

"Then how do you know how to jump?"

"I made it up based on the lyrics."

"Can you make up such a coherent and complete action that matches the lyrics?"

"Then when I first knew how to read, didn't I also sing "Xintianyou" by myself?"

Cao'er took out her little aunt's songbook and turned to the page of "Xintianyou" to show her aunt who didn't believe in herself, so as to prove that it was indeed a dance made by herself.

Yunxiu also once questioned that her little niece learned "Xintianyou" through other means, but it was not broadcast on TV, there was no radio at home at that time, and it was not in tune to listen to her babbling and singing at first, but the more she sang, the more accurate she became, she also believed it.

Now this dance seems to be made by herself.

It's a pity that the rural areas at that time focused on reading test scores, including Cao'er's father, who was an educator, and only paid attention to intellectual education and did not pay attention to the cultivation of physical education and music at all. Besides, it is not easy for the family to pay tuition and miscellaneous fees for their children to eat, drink, wear and live, and what else do they have to learn, no one in the family has such a vision, let alone such economic conditions.

Until Cao'er went to college, she still felt that these were very expensive things, and her family could not afford them, and she could not afford to gamble on her youth - she was part of her parents' breadwinners, and her parents were also part of her future breadwinners, and she didn't dare to pin her hopes of survival on these seemingly illusory things.

Carefree time goes the fastest. Soon, Saturday passed, and Sunday she would be back to her parents' house.

Since the morning, the fear of going back to her parents has risen in her heart, and she has counted the time minute by minute, hoping that the time will go slowly. But even if the long round wall clock in the living room stopped moving, the feet of the sun could not stop.

In the afternoon, she had to face the matter of going home.

"Grandma, can I wait until after three o'clock before leaving?"

Cao'er hugged her grandmother's waist, tilted her head and begged pitifully.

"Okay."

Grandma Cao'er also thought that her granddaughter could stay a little longer.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Cao'er walked around her grandmother, but she didn't speak.

Four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Cao'er, good granddaughter, you should be ready to go."

"No, grandma, I don't want to go back."

Cao'er's eyes were full of tears, and her voice was already choked.

"Be obedient, go back early, your father and mother won't talk about you, it's too late, they will not only talk about you, grandma will also be worried, you are alone, the road is too far."

"Grandma, I'm scared, I'm scared when I see them, I'm scared of the room where I slept alone."

"Don't your father and mother live next door to you?"

"Yes, but I'm still afraid, when I'm home alone at night, I turn on the lights and see the walls full of eyes, and I always hear all kinds of sounds in the middle of the night, so scared that I can't sleep with my head covered by the quilt."

Indeed, Cao'er has been timid and afraid of the dark since she was a child, and Cao'er's grandmother knows it well.

"I'll pick up a stone for you and put it in your pocket, and when you change your clothes, take it out and put it in the pocket of the clothes you wore that day, and you won't be afraid."

Grandma Cao'er took her granddaughter's hand to the open space in the corridor under the eaves, looked down for the pebble she liked, and put it in her granddaughter's jacket pocket.

"Okay, with this pebble, you won't be afraid."

When looking for stones, Cao'er's heart is indeed stable - even if she can suffer for one more minute without thinking about going home, she is still calm. But once she had to face the separation from her grandmother, her heart was like a small wooden boat about to capsize, and it was violently turbulent.

Cao'er hugged her grandmother and cried.

was extremely reluctant to the grandmother who was about to be separated, and the angry faces of seeing her parents at the home she was about to return to after separation, which converged into a cry that made Cao'er extremely frightened. The cry echoed on the grass from the door of my grandmother's house to the sheep intestine path at the head of the village.

When I arrived at the village, my grandmother couldn't deliver grass. Cao'er waved goodbye to her grandmother, and walked on the road with difficulty step by step.

She still had the luxury of wishing that time would go a little slower. She also walked as slowly as she could. Although, she knows, the later she delays, the more irritated her parents will be when she gets home. For this reason, she once made her parents so angry that their stomachs hurt, and their parents slept on the bed with their backs to her, and she was asked by her father to kneel beside the bed.

But as long as these terrible situations that she didn't know how to deal with came too late, she could delay a little longer.

In this way, every weekend comes, Cao'er will be entangled in whether to tell her parents that she wants to go back to her grandmother's house.

When she finally found her way back to her grandmother's house, Cao'er was like a cheerful bird, and she was worried that she would come back to her parents again in one night.

Gain and joy alternated in Cao'er's heart almost at the same time, so that she began to suffer from gains and losses at a young age.

For many nights, she dreamed that her grandmother would turn away after a few words with her, leaving her shouting and chasing after her grandmother's back until she woke herself up.

Therefore, in Cao'er's heart, no matter who is right and who is wrong in the contradiction between her parents and grandma, as long as she thinks that grandma is older, she will stand in grandma's position and unconditionally.

Conversely, if the parents are older than the grandmother, then she will stand in the shoes of the parents, also unconditionally.

Although she doesn't know how to judge the right and wrong of things, for her relatives, she uses her age to measure the inclination of the two sides of the contradiction in her heart.

Perhaps, Xiao Cao'er's fear of facing her parents comes from her unfamiliarity and seriousness towards her parents, and also from the fact that she doesn't know how to resolve this fear through communication and expression, so she can only choose to escape.

Her kindness made her try not to confront her parents, not even to talk back, and she didn't have a grudge against her parents in her heart, but she still chose to procrastinate to escape this fear.

In the face of the fear in his heart, he used the method of procrastination to escape, and he had immeasurable power over many things in the growth of the grass later.