Because of the old Chinese medicine practitioner, Grandma Xie attaches great importance to Xie Yusi's body, at this time, everyone does not have a refrigerator and cannot afford it, so they will not put meat food at home, and only bacon can be kept for a long time.

Grandma Xie made egg fried rice for Xie Yusi for dinner, and beat the egg soup with eggs, eggs at this time are good things, and they raise local chickens at home, but there is no contrast between everyone pursuing this kind of green food later, although local eggs are also precious in the countryside, everyone does not attach so much importance to them.

Of course, the adults in the family are still reluctant to eat the eggs, and some people keep them, and buy them for others after saving a basket, which is not valuable, but it is an income for rural people.

Smelling the familiar aroma of the meal, Xie Yusi's nose twitched twice, and then he ate many egg fried rice, but none of them were the same as grandma's fragrance, grandma's egg fried rice will not put a lot of things, only simple eggs and leftovers, at most add some green onions.

But it is such a simple ingredient, but the aroma of the rice made Xie Yusi's childhood brought this taste, warm and nostalgic.

Xie Yusi ate fragrantly, but Grandma Xie began to worry, this is already the best and most nutritious food that the family can provide, but it is still not enough, she sees that the children of Chen Chuanrong's family next door eat meat every few days, and it is also the meat of various wild things, I heard that the people who eat will be more healthy, not to mention Chen Chuanrong's family, Chen Junfeng's family is also, in addition to these families with good living conditions, the children of other families can also drink a broth every once in a while.

Now the meat is bought for four yuan a catty, and every day someone carries the burden to sell, for this Grandma Xie will not look at it, because she can't afford it, although the original conditions at home are poor, but it is not bad to this extent, but since Xie Bai was arrested, Xie Yusi's mother left, and she didn't go home for two years, and she didn't say anything when she went to her in-laws to ask them.

However, this is not the most important thing, the biggest expense that brings down the family is gifts, gifts to prison.

Originally, Grandma Xie thought that after Xie Bai was arrested, as long as he was obedient inside, they would be able to afford to wait when he came out in a few years, and they would visit him every six months, bring him something to eat, and see how he was doing in prison.

But only a year after my father was arrested, the family received a call from my father, who said that he was no longer good, that he was very sick and that no one had taken him to see a doctor, and that he would not even give him medicine.

The father hesitated, but the grandmother was in a hurry, and there seemed to be someone urging on the other end, and the father said: "Mother, come and see me, bring more money, at least 5,000." ”

Hearing this, Grandma Xie still didn't understand anything, and asked her grandfather not to go to the mine to do things and watch Xie Yusi at home, she borrowed some money from a few daughters, and borrowed the less from the loan shark in the next village, and with the money, she went to the city to see her father alone.

Xie Yu thought about how hard his grandmother was at that time, the car from the village to the county set off at two o'clock in the middle of the night, and the departure point was a little far away from Chenjia Village, and the grandmother carried the clothes and food she brought to her father, and her hand tightly grasped the pocket where she put 5,000 yuan, and walked to the car in the middle of the night.

At that time, the traffic was not developed, there was no direct car in the county, grandma changed the car several times halfway, once sat wrong, was left at the mouth of the tunnel in the middle of the night, cold to death, finally saw his own steamed bun shop, wanted to run to his stove to roast the fire, the boss saw grandma over and gave a big smile, asked if he wanted to buy anything.

Grandma spoke non-standard Mandarin, saying that she was cold and wanted to bake a fire, but the boss was gone when she heard the smile, and she drove her grandmother away, but there was no way, so she nested somewhere for a night, and she was unfamiliar with life, and she slept directly outside, and her grandmother with a lot of money was scared and didn't sleep all night.

Finally let my grandmother find the prison, and when I got there, my grandmother realized how vicious those people were, my father had a yellow face and thin muscles, and his clothes were robbed when he entered, and my grandmother didn't even have pants to wear when she saw him.

It was not so easy to see his father, who told her grandmother on the phone to let her go to a director surnamed Huang and give him the money, and the person would take her to see him and buy him medicine.

Those who worked in the prison unit had nothing to do, they all gathered in the courtyard to chat, and when they saw their grandmother carrying a big bag inside, they knew what they were here for, and a group of people immediately greeted them and asked, "Auntie, who are you looking for?" ”

Some said, "Does my aunt have something to do?" I help, come and come. ”

Grandma was so frightened that she didn't dare to move, and her father explained on the phone, saying that there might be a lot of people who would drag her and want her to give them the money, but she couldn't give it at this time, and it would be useless to send the wrong person.

Grandma was pulled by them and replied, "I'm here to find Director Huang." ”

Of course, those people knew that they were not looking for themselves, they probably felt that this kind of old lady from the countryside was honest and easy to deceive, and scared her: "What are you looking for Director Huang for?" What is your relationship with him? ”

Grandma hurriedly said, "I'm his cousin!" ”

Those people are not sure, these words were taught by my father to my grandmother, and my father was also told to him by a kind cellmate in the prison, and the cellmate's family was cheated, and the money was sent to the wrong person.

Fortunately, Director Huang happened to come back, and when he heard someone say that he was looking for him, he immediately understood what was going on, walked over in two steps and grabbed his grandmother's clothes, hurriedly walked towards the house, and said, "Follow me." ”

Grandma was dragged down several times, and after entering the house, this decently dressed and decent-looking young man stretched out his hand to grandma and said, "Give me the money, I'm in a hurry." ”

Grandma gave him a roll of toilet paper, of course, the toilet paper was all rolled out, and the money was put away one by one, and then rolled up, I heard that this is the rule.

The man hurriedly put away the money, and then took his grandmother to see his father, who only saw that in a hall full of sewage, crowded with men in prison clothes, Director Huang shouted: "Xie Bai, your mother has come to see you." ”

Grandma Xie saw a person coming out with the guard, and when she got closer, Grandma Xie almost cried, how could this still be like a person!

The father was shaved bald, his legs were swollen and deformed by sewage blisters, there was no blood on his face at all, but there were a lot more scars on his body, and Grandma Xie even saw a scar on the back of her son's head.

That's how many times I've been beaten!

But even if my father didn't even have the strength to talk to my grandmother, he was still called to work, and if he did it slowly, he would be beaten, and his hands were purple and black, and he was still bleeding.

My father was separated by an iron fence, and before he could say anything, he shed tears and asked if the family was okay? Is he both physically well? Does the child look good?

Grandma said that the family was fine, so she waited for him to come out.

Grandma didn't say anything about her mother's divorce from her father, she didn't say anything about her mother not coming home for two years, and grandma didn't say anything about the fact that the family's debts had been paid off, so what's the use of saying it?

After giving him the things she brought to her father, her grandmother went out to buy a few catties of beef and a bag of apples, and distributed them to several prisoners in the same cell, wanting them to take care of her father.

As soon as my grandmother got home, she received a call from her father, saying that Director Huang had taken him to see a doctor, bought medicine, and was much better now.

Since then, my grandmother has to go to see my father every six months, and if I don't go once, the family's debts will increase a little, and I will borrow and repay, but fortunately, everyone believes in my grandmother's personality and knows the difficulties of the Xie family, so I will borrow more or less, of course, except for the people in Chenjia Village.

Because of this, the life of the Xie family is becoming more and more difficult, grandpa has been working in the mine for many years, and every dime earned has to be kept back, grandma wants to take Xie Yusi, so she raised a few pigs at home and planted sweet potatoes, so as to increase some income for the family.

In the past two years, the family rarely bought meat, the Chinese New Year's Eve, other people's families are celebrating the New Year, and the Xie family is paying the bill, the New Year is not good to ask for debts, generally everyone comes to ask for it in the thirtieth night, so the Xie family's Chinese New Year's Eve meal is an extra bowl of broth stewed for Xie Yusi, and the grandparents don't move a bite.

Grandma Xie thought that if she would buy some meat stew for Xie Yusi from time to time in the future, they couldn't afford to buy more, so she bought about three or four taels each time, and gave Xie Yusi a small bowl alone.

I just don't know if people are willing to buy it like this, Grandma Xie is still worried.

There are many things at home, Xie Yusi is too small to help, Grandma Xie let him eat alone on a small stool, and he ate some leftovers casually, scooped up a few handfuls of vegetables to count as a meal, and fed the pigs as soon as he put the bowl.

At this time, Grandma Xie's body still looks quite strong, she goes up the mountain to cut kudzu vines alone, takes care of a few pigs, hens, and a lot of farm work, and takes care of Xie Yusi, and can also carry the port to dig sweet potatoes when she is free, and the Chen family is all interested in Grandma Xie's ability.

But only Xie Yusi knows that Grandma Xie looks very good, but in fact, the inside has long been hollowed out, no matter how good the health is, people have to do so much work every day, and they have to worry about many things, if it weren't for the debt that the family must pay off, the father's annual gift money must not be less, Xie Yusi still needs someone to take care of her, Grandma Xie may not be able to hold it for a long time.

It is true that when Xie Yusi was eight years old, Grandma Xie suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and suffered a stroke and was paralyzed, no one thought that a person who was still telling him fairy stories before going to bed would not be able to move after waking up.

Xie Yusi slept with his grandmother when he was a child, and when he woke up in the morning, he saw blood in his grandmother's ear, and he was frightened at that moment.

Grandma missed the best time for treatment, and the doctor said that if grandma rushed to the hospital to flush the blood vessels during the attack, nothing happened, but because it dragged on for another three days, grandma was paralyzed by half of her body.

And the reason for dragging at home is that there is no money.