Chapter 5 Grandpa
Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, two and a half years had passed, and I was almost eleven years old, and I had already met the requirements for the fifth grade.
But the problem came again, there is only kindergarten and grades 1 to 4 in our village, and there was such a thing some time ago, I can't leave my second grandfather!
If I don't go to school, my future will be ruined!
I knew I was dying, but I still didn't want to give up, and I wanted to fight hard. For so many years, living a day of fear and waiting for death every day is terrifying, how frightening it feels.
Even so, I finally came through strong and did not lose myself in endless panic and hopelessness, which is enough to prove that my heart is strong.
I told my parents that I wanted to go to school, but they were also helpless and refused to agree for my safety.
I begged my second grandfather again, but he couldn't stand my entanglement and finally agreed.
But he forced me to do one thing!
I agreed without hesitation, and finally I changed schools and went to study in a small town with my parents.
The second grandfather said that if you want to go, you must go far, so that Uncle Wang will not be able to find me.
Also, I was born weak and easy to attract dirty things, so my second grandfather gave me a small bracelet so that I couldn't take it off at any time!
Actually, I was reluctant, a man wearing a hand ring, it felt too awkward.
But for the sake of the future I envisioned, I still endured and passed!
In this way, I studied in the city with my parents, and under my influence, my father, a small farmer who had never gone to kindergarten, also found a job. Although I am a little bitter and tired, the salary is okay, ranging from 1,700 to 2,000 a person, and the whole family can be fed and warmed for the time being!
I'm the unluckiest one!
Since I left my small yard, I haven't been in the same shape as before. Although nothing dirty came to me, but my illness is getting worse and worse, except for the occasional cold and fever, plus general weakness, dizziness, but now it has reached the realm of long sleep, I always feel so tired, I want to sleep.
Every time I wake up, I am very scared, because that old Uncle Wang always appears in my dreams and tries to take me away in various ways. Whenever I saw his skinless body and bloody face, my heart trembled.
Why, why!
I shouted in my heart. But no one gave me an answer......
I have a good memory since I was a child, and I knew that I was dying, and this year is about to be my eleventh birthday, and I know that my life is coming and I won't last long.
Sometimes I think it's ridiculous, some people obviously have such a long life but don't know how to cherish it, enjoy it, have to pursue any wealth, status, fame and fortune, and only wake up when their life is approaching.
And I just want to live well and see more of the world, but God is so ruthless, only giving me a few years to live, and just letting me know all this, so that I wait for death every day to come.
It's really impermanent, and it's not as good as people want!
After the summer vacation, I went back to my hometown with my parents, and I don't plan to go to study anymore, so let's live at home. Anyway, I've seen a lot of things, enough books!
I remember that I just graduated from the second grade, took the first award in the class and returned to Chenjia Village with my parents, I have grown into a young boy with clear eyebrows, although the body is still thin and weak, but I already have the temperament of a scholar.
When I returned to the village, I could clearly feel that I was out of place with the children of my fellow villagers.
Other people's children are strong and strong, tall and big, a **-year-old boy looks like a teenager has a fight, more than a head taller than me, walking is full of energy, walking like flying!
I was short and thin, as if I was malnourished. Ahem, in fact I was malnourished.
When I got home, I felt a sense of comfort that I hadn't seen my two grandfathers for three years, and now I'm finally back, so I'm in a very good mood.
But my father and mother looked worried, and they didn't leave me an inch.
I know what they're afraid of, I'm their only child, and if I go, they're going to be miserable. So I'm scared too, scared of all this!
The next day, the second grandfather said that he wanted to show me.
I knew it, but I still had to put on an expression that I didn't know, for fear that they would see something. Because I never told them my secret, they thought I didn't know anything.
Dad was afraid that I would be disobedient, so he simply gave me a showdown, so he pulled me next to the second grandfather, and said to me with a reluctant smile: "Little Mo'er, you have grown up, and many things should not be hidden from you anymore, but you don't blame me and your mother, it will be fine in a few days, we can't leave you a shadow, you obediently listen to the words of the second grandfather Chen, it won't be long before we can live a happy life, Dad will no longer manage you every day, you can be free!" ”
"What?" I'm not pretending to be this time, I really don't understand, what does it mean to be free in a few days? Could it be that the second grandfather has a way to solve my premature death?
My face leaked an unprecedented look of excitement, and my head nodded like a chicken pecking rice, for fear that my father would regret it.
The second grandfather called me over, touched my head, and said with a smile: "Stretch out your hands, and the second grandfather will give you something." ”
I smiled and bent my eyes, obediently stretched out my hand in front of his old man, and watched him take out two pieces of red rope from his arms, twist one and put it on my left hand, and tie a cumbersome knot.
Then he twisted another red rope and put it on my right hand, this time the knot was still very cumbersome, but it was not the same as the one on my left hand, it was a knot method that I had never seen before.
I thought to myself, isn't it just a knot, and I just go through it in a circle? Why bother.
"Second grandfather, what is this?" I asked, confused.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead with a smile, and his amiable smile showed a trace of exhaustion, but he still replied to me unhurriedly: "It's a gift from the second grandfather, you remember, don't take it off and don't run around, wait for two days, the second grandfather will come to see you again." ”
After saying that, he took his parents out of the door together, and he didn't know what to say, leaving me alone to play with the red rope.
Two days later, the second grandfather really came, had lunch, and went to work with my father, while I was called into the house by my mother, and mysteriously said that she wanted to give me something.
I went to the room, and when I saw that my grandfather was there, I immediately jumped up for joy and threw myself into his arms.
Grandpa stretched out his hand to hold me in his arms, staring at me with a wrinkled face, as if he was reluctant.
I looked at him a little strangely and asked, "Grandpa, I haven't seen you for a long time, why didn't I see you when I came back with my father and mother two days ago, did you go to relatives?" ”
Grandpa nodded, grinned, leaked out a mouthful of big yellow teeth, the wrinkles on his face were piled up, and his eyes were invisible.
He always looked at me so lovingly, and said with a smile: "Little Mo'er, you don't know, grandpa went to your second father's house a while ago, and he only came back today." What's wrong, do you miss grandpa? ”
"yes, I miss you." I also replied with a smile, looking at my grandfather's strange gaze, I always felt a little strange, but I didn't know where this feeling came from, as if it was an illusion!
It's as if I suddenly have a feeling of reluctance to the grandfather who has always loved me and loves me, who is slightly stiff in front of me, full of gray hair, and who has always loved me, he is obviously by my side, but why should I feel this way?
I put aside the unhappiness in my heart, chatted with my grandfather and laughed, and there seemed to be endless words between us, and I told all kinds of things I had encountered in school in the past few years.
I said, "In the outside society, there are many things that we don't have in our village, there are airplanes in the sky that can fly, there are cars on the ground that can run faster than our ox-drawn carts, there are magical mobile phones and computers, there are color televisions, and high houses ......."
Grandpa listened carefully, I was very happy to speak, and the time was unconsciously half past five in the evening.