When her father was sick, Cao'er also told her grandmother when she returned to her hometown on the weekend. When Grandma heard this, she sighed for a day with a sad face.

Cao'er was ignorant, but she also knew that her grandmother was worried about her father. What she can't understand is that this attitude between adults who are obviously worried, but still unforgiving on their faces, doesn't it hurt each other? She couldn't understand it, and she didn't have much of a mind to think about it. Back to her grandmother, her heart was still sad by the joy of coming back and the departure she was about to face.

It's just that after all, she has a younger brother in her new home with her parents, classmates, Zheng Xingxing and Li Yunfeng, and as she gets older, she is embarrassed to cry anymore.

Cao'er's uncle Yun Gang and Yun Jin both had their own children one after another, Yun Gang had two beautiful and lovely daughters, and Yun Jin had an enviable son and a daughter. Everyone says that grass grows, and grass should be used as an example. Indeed, the rows of awards that are plastered on the TV cabinet in the living room of grandma's house are still impressive. Grandma Cao'er said that she would use it to spur her younger brothers and sisters.

Cao'er was still a little proud when she heard her grandmother say this at first, but after hearing it too much, she didn't feel much touched, it was just an honor in the past. She secretly took back the award certificate issued by the teacher in the central elementary school to her grandmother, and pasted it with the previous awards.

Compared with winning the award, Cao'er felt that the smile on the old man's face when she handed the certificate to her grandmother and pasted it on the wall made her feel more happy.

Cao'er is also very close to her little aunt Yunxiu and little uncle Yunyi. Yunxiu is relatively short, and it is said that when she was a child, she always carried grass on her back and followed Cao'er's grandmother to the vegetable field to press her. My aunt didn't go to school again after graduating from junior high school, and I heard her and Cao'er say that she was admitted to high school, but she broke up and her family was poor, so she took the initiative not to go.

In the mid-80s, graduating from junior high school and being admitted to a secondary school or technical secondary school was the most powerful and the best choice for rural students. Because after three years of study, they can be assigned jobs immediately, middle school teachers can go to the town's primary and secondary schools to become teachers, and technical secondary schools can work as technicians in factories according to the type of work they have learned, which not only saves tuition, but also can immediately see the future of their children and families. But those who study middle school teachers and technical secondary schools not only work decently, but also are the sweets of the wedding market, and everyone grabs them.

My aunt definitely wanted to be admitted to the middle school, but she didn't get in. If you go to high school, not to mention the three-year tuition, the main thing is that you don't know if you can be admitted to college after high school, and it takes three or four years to finish college, and you don't know where the job is, and the girl's family is in her twenties after college, and it is difficult to find her in-law when she marries, and the boys in the surrounding villages are either farmers or part-time workers, who dares to marry a female college student? Therefore, there are too many unknowns in high school, and even the little aunt Yunxiu herself does not dare to take this kind of road that cannot see the future clearly.

And at home, seeing that the brothers are all their own family, each family has its own difficult scriptures, and no one can take care of Yunxiu. And the neighbors, girls who are the same year as Yunxiu and even two or three years younger, including boys, have almost already left the study door and come back to help the family, Yunxiu graduated from junior high school, which is also reasonable.

In this way, Cao'er's little aunt Yunxiu returned to her home and helped her old mother plough the fields together.

Cao'er's youngest uncle Yun Yi, because when he was three years old, his parents found that he was a little slurred and took him to the hospital for examination. The doctor said that if it is detected before the age of three, it can be corrected by surgery. But for Yun Yi, who is already three years old, it is too late, and the surgery is too risky to do.

Because of this, Yun Yi was teased by his classmates after going to the village school, he was sensitive and smart, had strong self-esteem, and was also the biggest and most straightforward among the brothers and sisters.

Although Lao Yuntou doesn't care about family affairs, he is angry with this uncompetitive little son who always disgraces himself, and when he comes home, he is beaten violently behind closed doors. And Yun Yi, who returned home, was very good with everyone, but he had a great grudge against his father, always pointing at Lao Yuntou behind his back, and once Lao Yuntou found out, he raised a stool and beat Yun Yi again.

Yun Yi was originally a very clever child, especially sensitive to numbers, arithmetic very fast, and quick response, but because he was teased by his classmates at school, he was beaten by his father when he returned home, and he couldn't get out of his breath, so he got epilepsy. After graduating from primary school, his family did not let him continue to go to school. When he saw that his sister Yunxiu could go to junior high school, he was even more uneasy, but he was helpless, but as he got older, his heart no longer grew.

Because of this, when the family was separated, the Yun family brothers said that they would hand over Yun Yi to the government, but Grandma Cao'er was unwilling to live or die, so she insisted on letting Yun Yi follow her, and gave Yun Yi a share of her belongings.

Grandma Cao'er made it clear that in her lifetime, she must take Yunyi and Yunxiu with her. She wants to watch Yun Xiu get married, let Yun Yi follow her, and give him half a bite of food until she is a hundred years later, and the brothers will hand it over to the government when they can't take care of him well.

Therefore, Grandma Cao'er took Yun Yi and Yun Xiuyi, who were not married, and their lives were indeed hard. Yun Xiu also followed her brother and sister-in-law to work in the field with Yun Yi at the beginning. Yun Gang will tell Yun Xiu and Yun Yi when to plant, when to fertilize, and so on. Many times, Yun Gang sprinkled herbicides in his own field, and he also helped to sprinkle the crops in Yun Yi and Yun Xiu's fields.

In this way, rice, peanuts, vegetables, beans, Cao'er's grandmother and her youngest son and daughter are also abundant. But Yunxiu heard the girl next door say that she could earn a lot of money a month by working in a factory in Shenzhen, so she also thought about it, and after discussing it with her mother, she decided to try it with a few girls next door.

In this way, Yunxiu, who had just turned eighteen, followed the girls from the same village to Shenzhen, and was introduced to the factory and became a worker in the factory assembly line.

Yunxiu began to have new clothes, and also began to buy New Year's gifts for each niece when she came back every year during the Spring Festival. Yunxiu must be indispensable for Cao'er to give Cao'er a new set of clothes every year, and a big red envelope of fifty yuan must also be available. Sometimes, Yunxiu would add a watch from her factory to these nieces and nephews, saying that it was very cheap, only twenty yuan.

Cao'er wanted to give the red envelope for the New Year's to her grandmother, but her grandmother didn't want it, and secretly told Cao'er that her little aunt could get back 8,000 yuan a year from part-time work, plus a few thousand yuan from selling rice and peanut oil, adding up to a 10,000-yuan household quietly. In the early 90s, it became a 10,000-yuan household, which was still very remarkable, especially in a rural family of one old and two young. It's just that, except for the little aunt Yunxiu and grandma herself, Cao'er knows.

Grandma Cao'er's money always let Yun Xiu save most of it in the passbook, and put a small part of the cash under the straw mat on the bed. At that time, rural people still put sun-dried straw stalks between the bed board and the straw mat. Cao'er never thought of opening her grandmother's mat to see her grandmother's money. Grandma said that she wanted to show her, and she also said to grandma no, she didn't have to watch it, and believed grandma. So grandma gave her money again, but she waved her hand and didn't want it, and grandma said that there was a lot of money under the mat, and she had to show her, so she took it and saved it to buy books for herself.

And every time she came home, her grandmother had to add vegetables. Sometimes it's to add pork, sometimes it's to kill a chicken, sometimes it's scrambled eggs, sometimes it's to make moldy tofu and fried tempeh peppers, and in summer, I buy cold noodles and watermelon. This kind of goodness, the grass is enjoyed as a matter of course. It's just that her grandmother always stuffs her pocket money in private, and she always tries not to want it as much as possible.

She is actually willful, when she was a child, she was by her grandmother's side, and she always pestered her grandmother to buy her maltose, popsicles, and plum snacks to eat, but now she is a little sensible, and she also likes to eat the snacks left by her grandmother, but she can no longer bear to ask her grandmother to spend extra money to buy her food.

However, grandma has always put her at the top of her heart, and has never given birth to her because of the separation. Now that I think about it, my grandmother is an unusual old man, she is self-reliant, and she does not let the young people support her, but she has worked all her life, never stopping, her love for her granddaughter Cao'er, has never stopped, just as she promised to Cao'er's biological mother Ming and Qing Dynasties, as long as she is there, she must try her best to take care of her granddaughter. And she did.