Chapter 25 The ears that stick to the placket of grandma's clothes
Cao'er's mother had just left that period, and there were many things at home, and in order to comfort the old couple who lost their daughter, Cao'er was sent to live at her grandmother's house for a while. Every day, the loving grandmother carried her young granddaughter on her back to pick up dog poop and pig poop to make fertilizer. Looking at the lovely granddaughter, thinking that this is the continuation of the daughter in this world, the old couple can be regarded as having some comfort.
But Cao'er is the granddaughter of the Yun family, and her grandparents have a lot of work, so after living for a while, she was taken back to the Yun family. Because of Cao'er's mother's instructions before leaving, Cao'er's food, clothing and daily life were almost taken care of by her grandmother. Since then, in the world of grass, there is only grandma.
On weekdays, Cao'er eats and sleeps with her grandmother, and her grandmother asks for whatever she wants. When grandma is there, the grass is at ease, and when grandma is not there, she cries.
So, every morning, I would see a thin and tough old man at the head of the village, wearing a blue headband, wearing a sky-blue nylon cross-shirt and dark blue homespun trousers, carrying a little girl of more than one year old with a strap, carrying a wooden bucket, walking on the road to the vegetable garden.
The fresh air in the fields moistens the old and the young.
When the morning sun rises, the figures of the old man and the child stick together, moving back and forth on the ridges of the field. As far as the eye can see, the green pepper leaves and purple long round eggplants nourish the Yun family, and the green vegetables and crops on the ridges and fields of the villages like the Yun family also nourish the old and young in the village.
"Grandma, morning! Carrying your granddaughter to water the vegetables again?! ”
"Yes, when I wake up, she wakes up with her, and I cry if I don't take her with me, but I don't bring it out."
"Yo! Not really! Everywhere I went, I saw you and your granddaughter, either carrying or hugging, just like a grain of cang's ear stuck to your grandmother's clothes! ”
"Yes!"
The old and young in the village often make fun of the Yun family's grandmother and her granddaughter. A cang's ear stuck to the placket of grandma's clothes is not only a joke of the villagers about Cao'er, but also a sweet burden hanging in Cao'er's grandmother's mouth.
For Cao'er's diet, Grandma completely follows her granddaughter's preferences, but at the same time, Cao'er of course follows Grandma's dietary preferences to a large extent.
Cao'er's mother was sick and couldn't drink milk, so Cao'er's grandmother had to mix a bowl of salt water and a bowl of white sugar water for Cao'er to lick each mouthful.
Since then, the grass has become sugar-free and unfed.
As long as Cao'er is thirsty, crying, and has no milk to drink, she drinks white sugar water and eats rice cereal with white sugar. When Xiaocao began to grow teeth and could eat, she only ate white sugar water to make rice. I saw the grandmother put a small spoonful of white rice soaked in white sugar water into Cao'er's mouth, watched her granddaughter take this mouthful of sugar rice, sucked the sugar water dry with her small mouth, and then spit out a mouthful of white rice that had been dried up into Grandma's small spoon, and Grandma put the rice spit out by Cao Er into another bowl, and then fed her granddaughter.
As the grass teeth grew together, she began to eat with a small bowl, and often did the same when eating white sugar water to soak rice, sucking up the sugar water and spitting it directly to the ground, grandma had just finished sweeping the ground, turned around, and before she put down the broom, Xiao Xier vomited at her feet again, and grandma silently swept away the rice that her granddaughter spit on the ground.
White sugar is the nutrient for the first growth of Cao'er, recording the love of Cao'er and her grandmother and grandchildren.
The grass is unfortunate and happy at the same time. Because she is the first grandchild in the family and the youngest in the family, except for her grandmother, everyone else also spoils her, and even gets used to her, so that there is only joy in her life, and there is no sorrow.
A scene that often occurs is that in order to add nutrients to the grass, several members of the family gather around the small grass to persuade vegetables. Cao'er doesn't like to eat the yolk of boiled eggs the most, so grandma will peel off the shell of the boiled egg and let Cao'er finish eating the egg whites on it.
"Take a small bite of egg yolk and take a sip of water."
Uncles Yun Gang, Yun Jin, and Yun Yi were next to them and said to their little niece one by one how delicious and nutritious the egg yolk was.
The eldest aunt Yun Ling and the little aunt Yun Xiu said next to them that if they ate a small egg yolk, they would reward a little puppet brought back by their uncle to play.
Finally, Cao'er licked a small bite of egg yolk with her tongue under everyone's coaxing and reward. The whole family exclaimed in amazement, those who should be given water quickly put the water to the lips of the grass, and those who should be encouraged and rewarded hurriedly boasted on the side.
Of course, usually at this time, Cao'er's father Yunxin is not present, if he is present, Cao'er does not dare to be too willful, and everyone does not dare to coax their little Cao'er so much.
However, although Cao'er is spoiled by her grandmother and family, she has many advantages that other children are not as good as.
For example, self-control. That's right, Cao'er's self-control seems to be very good since she was a child, and she hardly wets the bed at night. For this reason, whenever someone asked, my grandmother was very proud and said:
"My grass is really very young and I don't wet the bed. I always put a handful of urine before going to bed, and then tell her to pee the next morning, if you want to pee in the middle of the night, you can't pull it directly, you have to talk to the adult. It really worked, this kid can almost get up the next morning to pee, and wake me up at night when he wakes up. “
When Cao'er was woken up by the barking of dogs outside in the middle of the night, the illiterate grandmother would hold up the dilapidated villain book with the cover peeled off, and under the yellow light, she would look at the pictures of the characters in it for her granddaughter page by page, telling the story of how the ancient wise seven-grade sesame official was not afraid of power and outwitted the evil woman.
Every now and then, the weeping grass will be quiet until it hears it and falls asleep.
This is a picture book story that belongs to Cao'er's childhood, the shabby villain book, I don't know how many times my grandmother has turned it over, and how many times I have listened to it. This is the enlightenment of good and evil, good and bad people, that Cao'er was first exposed to. This story, this villain's book, until Cao'er became literate, never got tired of reading it.
Cao'er's grandmother's love for her granddaughter Cao'er is completely given and unconditional.
As long as Grandma Cao'er thinks that something is good, no matter what she eats, she can't wait to give it to her granddaughter. Whether it is the candy and biscuits brought by the guests, or the fun brought by the guests, without exception, they will be left to the granddaughter.
As she grew older, the grass on her grandmother's shoulders turned into a little sparrow around her lap.
Grandma was busy in the vegetable garden, and the grass was beside her to help pick up the leaves and catch the insects lying on the back of the leaves. Grandma chatted with the guests, and the naughty grass would come over and pull up a table to see if there was anything to eat, and if there was, she would take some out and put it on the table, and then put the rest in the bedside table drawer where she and her grandmother lived. If not, he will mischievously open his mouth and say with a toothy mouth when the guests are amused with themselves:
"How do you know that people have children at home, and they don't bring some candy?"
made grandma cry and laugh, and hurried to play a round.
Grandma came to see Cao'er and invited Cao'er to go back with her, Cao'er sat on the sofa with a big face, and while eating the peanuts that her grandmother peeled for herself, she shook her legs and said:
"Wait until I'm done with peanuts!"
After eating the peanuts, the little cutie said:
"Wait until I'm done with my tea!"
The childish words amused her grandmother, who had walked a long way to see her, and also overflowed the hearts of the old people, and praised Grandma Cao'er for taking good care of her granddaughter.
The simple grass was immersed in the care of her grandmother's sweet crooked teeth, with few tears and a lot of laughter, and she never thought that she would crave the love of anyone else.
Cao'er, who lost her mother, got all her love satisfaction from her grandmother.