Chapter 15: Grandma dies

Winters in the north are always cold.

The cold wind was blowing, and the bare plane trees on the campus were shivering like bald old men in the soothing of the northwest wind.

There was silence in the dark dormitory, Li Huizi opened her eyes in horror, she touched her nose with her hand, she felt like someone had just scratched her with her fingernails, and now it still hurts a little hot.

She had a bad premonition. Because she just had a strange dream, she dreamed that her father and mother were wearing mourning clothes and filial piety, kneeling in a pile of people and crying. Then, she saw her grandmother smiling at her from the crowd and turned to walk into the distance, she chased after her grandmother, but her grandmother did not respond to her, and in an instant her grandmother disappeared without a trace, and she woke up from her dream.

Li Huizi gently groped for a candle and a box of matches from under the pillow, and then quietly lit the candle and gently glued it to the board at the head of the bed. She glanced up at the clock in her bedroom: four in the morning. Winter in the north usually doesn't light until about half past six in the morning.

She lost her sleepiness for a moment, and then she suddenly remembered that when she returned to school two weeks ago, she accidentally learned from her mother that her grandmother was sick and hospitalized. She also asked her mother what kind of illness her grandmother had? Does it matter? Do you want her to go see your grandmother? Mom said vaguely that it didn't matter, there was no problem, and my grandmother would be discharged from the hospital in a few days. She didn't think much about it at the time, and happily came to school.

She didn't dare to think about it anymore when she thought of this, if it was really her grandmother's ......? What should she do? Grandma has loved her the most since she was a child.

She remembers when she was about six years old when she was a child, and she lived in her grandmother's house. One day at noon, she wanted to eat donkey meat, and she cried and cried to eat it. However, my grandfather was not at home at the time, and my grandmother could not ride a bicycle, so she sold donkey meat in a town four kilometers away from my grandmother's house. She vaguely remembered that she was lying on the ground like that, rolling vigorously and crying vigorously. In the end, my grandmother had no choice, so she carried her four kilometers to the town and bought her her favorite donkey meat. Fortunately, on the way back, my grandmother ran into their neighbor and finally took a ride back home.

When she grew up, Li Huizi never ate donkey meat again, and the taste of missing always existed in her memory.

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Another time, it was a weekend in the summer when she was in the third grade of elementary school, and she stayed at her grandmother's house again, and she made steamed buns with her.

On that day, because the weather was very hot, my grandmother moved the tools and table for making steamed buns to the yard. At that time, my grandmother's house raised a cow and six big goats, especially the six goats, every time Li Huizi went to her grandmother's house, they were like waiting for the owner who had not returned home for a long time, warmly arching the horns of the sheep to welcome her, so that every time Li Huizi came to her grandmother's house, she would prepare a self-defense guy in advance.

That day was also Li Huizi's first contact with flour food, she was quite excited, if she was at home, Li Huizi's mother would never let her touch these. Together with her grandmother, she kneaded the dough into the shape of piglets, which was very cute. Grandma also praised her for doing a good job, and when she was still immersed in her own results, she completely ignored the six big goats in her house, and the six guys had been standing behind her for a long time, and in the five minutes she went to the kitchen, the six cute big goats had eaten the cute little pig steamed buns unscrupulously.

"Grandma, sheep...... Big goat ...... Woo woo woo ...... "Li Huizi walked from the kitchen to the yard, and saw the sheep eating her steamed buns at a glance, and she stammered anxiously and cried and called out to her grandmother.

Grandma ran out of the kitchen in a hurry, thinking that Li Huizi was being bullied by the goat again, but she frightened her grandmother.

"The sheep are gnawing on our steamed buns." Li Huizi wiped her tears and pointed to the group of six big goats who had not planned to leave.

"We'll do it again after eating, and it's out of the way." As she spoke, Grandma picked up a broom and went to catch the six pesky guys.

Since she was in junior high school, she rarely went to her grandmother's house again.

Since her grandfather died when she was in elementary school for five years, her grandmother has become an elderly person living alone.

She had no uncle or aunt, and her mother was an only daughter like her.

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"Li Huizi, why don't you sleep?" Clinical Student C was awakened by the candle lit by Li Huizi, and Li Huizi was pulled back from his memory at once.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." Li Huizi said as she immediately blew out the candle. She lay quietly on the bed, praying in her heart that her grandmother would never be fine, and fell asleep in a daze.

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"Li Huizi, go to the teacher's office, your homeroom teacher is looking for you." In the first Chinese class in the morning, the Chinese teacher looked at Li Huizi as soon as he stood on the podium and said.

She trotted all the way to the office, and as soon as she reached the door of the classroom office, the head teacher eagerly came out of her seat to greet her.

"Huizi, hurry up and go home, just your neighbor uncle (is a contractor, his family is relatively superior, the family has installed a telephone since last year, and he is the second person in Li Huizi and their village besides the village chief's book to have a landline) called and said that your grandmother left in the early hours of this morning."

Li Huizi's tears immediately flowed, she didn't say anything, nodded at the teacher and rushed out.

She ran directly to Li Haoyu's classroom, asked him for the bicycle key, and rode to her grandmother's house quickly. She thought that at this time, her family should be at her grandmother's house.

Li Haoyu looked at her with a sad expression, and didn't dare to ask her what happened.

Li Huizi did not return to the classroom until the end of the first Chinese class. Xiao Chen sat in his seat, a little uneasy.

"Li Zhen, why did she go?" Xiao Chen couldn't help it, and pointed to Li Huizi's seat and asked Li Zhen.

"Didn't you hear it just now, it was the head teacher looking for her, and I wondered, why didn't she come back?" Li Zhen also felt that it was very abnormal, what was more important than class?

The morning class has passed, and when it is time for lunch, Li Huizi is still not seen.

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"Do you know what's going on with Keiko? She asked me for the keys to the bike this morning, and she hasn't come back. As soon as Li Haoyu and Li Mingzhe walked to the door of the cafeteria, they met Li Zhen, Li Xiao and Xiao Chen, and Li Haoyu asked with concern.

"Huh? She rode out? Wasn't she called by the head teacher? Li Zhen said in surprise.

"It can't be that something happened to her family, right?" Xiao Chen said uneasily.

"Probably not." Lee Ming-che said thoughtfully.

"I hope she's okay." Li Xiao also said worriedly.

At this meal, everyone ate exceptionally distractedly, thinking about what Li Huizi was doing?

Until the end of the evening self-study class, Li Huizi still did not come back. Li Zhen consciously tidied up Li Huizi's desk for her, and went back to the bedroom with Li Xiao.

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Early the next morning, when Xiao Chen arrived at the classroom, he saw that Li Huizi's seat was still empty, and he was even more restless. He really wanted to run to the classroom office and ask the head teacher, what did Li Huizi do? However, he was afraid of asking so recklessly, what would the teacher think? In the end, he put an end to his thoughts.

In the afternoon, when the algebra class was in progress, the teacher was giving a serious lecture, and the door of the classroom was suddenly gently pushed open.

"Report!" Li Huizi stood weakly at the door and shouted.

"Please come in." The algebra teacher saw that it was Li Huizi and immediately let her in.

The classmates all looked curiously at the class leader who had disappeared for more than a day, what did she do?

Because it was class time, Xiao Chen didn't want to ask her what happened? Li Zhen glanced at her very much, it was okay not to look at it, but she was startled when she saw it, Li Huizi's eyes were red and swollen.

"Keiko, are you alright?" Li Zhen wrote a few words and put them in Li Huizi's textbook.

"It's okay, concentrate on class." Li Huizi wrote a few more big words and went back.

"Jingle bell ......" The bell rang for the end of class.

"Li Huizi, this is a note from yesterday to this morning, you see." Xiao Chen didn't smash her this time, but walked over from his seat and gently put the notebook on Li Huizi's desk.

"Huizi, what the hell are you doing?" Li Xiao also walked to Li Huizi's seat, and she and Li Zhen looked like they broke the casserole and asked the end.

Li Huizi looked at the two of them, and before she could speak, tears had already flowed out of her eyes.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Don't cry, a few of us are very worried about you. Li Xiao immediately hugged Li Huizi to his chest and comforted anxiously.

"yes, don't cry, what's wrong with you? We're going to worry more about you like that. Li Zhen also said anxiously.

"Woo...... My grandmother ...... Whining...... My grandmother ...... He's dead. After Li Huizi finished speaking, her tears were like an unloaded flood, and she couldn't control it anymore.

Li Xiao and Li Zhen saw her sad and sad appearance, and hugged her even tighter. Xiao Chen was stunned there, and he didn't know what to say? Just willfully made her cry.