"Aunt, you're here!" The third uncle helped the old man to sit on a bamboo chair in the center of the lobby. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

When my cousin and I heard my uncles call the old man aunt, my cousin and I realized that this old man was our aunt, but we had never seen him so big.

My aunt didn't sit down, but walked straight to my grandmother's bed, the corners of her mouth trembling slightly, tears rolling in the wrinkled corners of her eyes.

"Why don't you wait for me, why don't you tell me everything, my brother hasn't come back yet, why are you leaving, I haven't come to see you yet......" The aunt held back her tears, and knelt on the ground by the side of the bed before she finished speaking.

The third uncle stepped forward and picked up his aunt and helped her to the chair.

"Auntie, my mother just left, if you cry and break your body, what should we children do." The third uncle comforted.

"I'm fine!" My aunt waved her hand, touched a handful of tears and shouted to everyone, "From now on, no one should cry here, my sister likes to be quiet, don't disturb her sleep!" Today is a festive day for many people......"

"Aunt, what are you talking about, how can you say that your mother is happy when she leaves!" The mother interrupted her aunt's words, a little angry.

The courtyard suddenly became noisy, and my aunt paused, and continued: "Today, my sister suddenly left without illness or disaster, and we are here for joy and mourning, so let's put away our tears." ”

After finishing speaking, the aunt sighed deeply, her expression was calm, as if she had known that there would be such a situation today, but she could not do anything about it.

As I sat on the stone slab in the courtyard, I saw my father and my uncle-in-law standing in front of the door of the side room, their eyes wandering, as if they were all immersed in their own thoughts, and they had not said a word since they entered the door.

The conversation of the adults continued until noon, when the mourners in the village had dispersed, when the second uncle and several eldest brothers brought the coffin and placed it in the lobby. According to our local customs, people are buried on the day of death, the coffin lid is half open and half hidden, and the coffin is sealed and buried after three days of vigil. In the afternoon of the same day, when my grandmother was buried, the adults opened our children and closed the door of the old home.

My cousin and I went to the village under the old locust tree, and the shrill sound of cicadas on the branches made the afternoon seem even quieter. The sun shone through the gaps in the foliage, and we sat silently under the trees.

For a while, sleepiness struck, and in a trance, I thought that all this was still a dream that I didn't wake up from last night.

"Loach, asleep?" My cousin patted me on the shoulder.

"No ......"

I looked up, the sunlight shining through the gap in the leaves into my pupils, and I blinked, tears streaming down my eyes. I remember that in the winter when my family first built the bungalow, the house was cold and damp, and I was cold and short of breath after moving in for a week. After the diagnosis and treatment failed, my grandmother came to the house and scolded my mother, and then took me back to the old home, and every winter, my grandmother would hold my cold feet in her arms every night, and use her own body temperature to warm me.

"Brother, grandmother, she ......" I couldn't hold back any longer, tears flowed like a river bursting its banks, washing the pain in my chest.

"Okay, don't cry, be strong!" My cousin choked up and scribbled the ground with a twig with his head down.

Such a sudden change in two days was unbearable for us who were not yet ten years old, and cast a heavy shadow on our young hearts.

Thankfully, at that age, we didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

Time passed minute by minute, I don't know how long I sat under the locust tree, and I heard the second uncle shouting from a distance: "I really don't know what our aunt thinks, I have to be buried today, isn't this chaos?" ”

"Don't say a word, it's so hot, it's better to let our mother rest in peace as soon as possible."

My cousin and I stood up and saw the second and third uncles walking this way, they should be going home, the second uncle has always been loud and stubborn.

"Erdan, loach, your two fathers are looking for you, in the old courtyard." When the third uncle passed in front of us, he said a word and hurried home.

We patted the soil on our bodies and walked curiously to the old courtyard, it has only been more than an hour since we came out, but it feels like a long, long time.

"Brother, I just heard from my uncle that my grandmother will be buried today."

"I heard it too, isn't it usually three days later?"

"The second uncle just said that it was set by our aunt."

"Where did this aunt of ours come from, why have I never seen it?"

"I don't know, I've seen ......"

Along the way, we walked back to the old courtyard with various questions and mixed feelings.

Stepping on the bluestone steps in front of the old courtyard, across the courtyard, you can see my grandmother's coffin in the lobby from a distance, the courtyard is silent, all the relatives are not there, only the mother and aunt keep rubbing their eyes by the bedside.

As soon as my feet slipped and stumbled on the threshold, I fell to the ground with a thrust in my knee, and my cousin pulled me up, and I limped over.

"Mom, what did my dad tell me to do?" When my cousin saw that my uncle-in-law was not there, he asked curiously.

The aunt raised her head, her eyes were red, she didn't notice us walking in, and said weakly: "Your father and your aunt have returned to our house, your aunt wants to see you, go back......."

"Why have I never seen my aunt?" We both asked almost in unison.

"Your aunt lives in Yanshi, far away from us, she has been in poor health and rarely sees people, I haven't taken you to your aunt's house, you definitely don't know each other, go home and meet your aunt."

After the aunt finished speaking, she lay on the table next to the bed, supporting her head with her hands, staring blankly at her grandmother's coffin, and her mother was next to her aunt, her face was haggard, and she didn't say a word.

The coffin lid was half-hidden, and the grandmother was lying there quietly, as if she was asleep, and she was having a long, long dream, in which the family had not yet fallen, the father had never left home, her lover was by her side, and the children were playing around the yard, and the troubles of reality were illusory.

For a moment, my heart was inexplicably happy, and I was suddenly relieved. Walking out of the gate of the old courtyard, I looked back at my grandmother, at that moment I really hoped that my grandmother would wake up suddenly, I would definitely not run away, but stepped forward and threw myself into her arms.

When I returned home, the door was open, the yard was full of cigarette butts, my aunt, my father and my uncle-in-law were talking in the living room, and a pair of rolled Spring Festival couplets were placed on the table.

"This is your aunt, do you know?" My father beckoned us to sit next to my aunt.

"I don't know ......"

My aunt touched my head: "When I saw these two children, they were still nursing!" Now he looks so handsome, and your dad is really carved out of the same mold! ”

Looking closely, my aunt has silver hair, few wrinkles on her face, and her eyes are as kind as my grandmother's, but my body is much weaker than my grandmother's, and I can see that she has been struggling with illness all year round.

"What's your name?" My aunt looked at us and asked, she must have known about it.

"My name is Zhu Hong."

"My name is Chen Tu."

"Do you know who gave you names?"

"Grandma!"

"Well......" the aunt nodded, and turned back to her father, "these two children are very clever, and they will definitely have great prospects in the future!" ”

The uncle-in-law smiled and said: "These two hairy children make trouble all day long, they are very bad, I don't expect anything big in the future!" ”

The father should also agree: "That's it! In the future, I will be relieved to live honestly and peacefully. ”

Surrounded by adults in the middle, saying this and that, there was a strange aunt sitting next to us, which made us feel very embarrassed and embarrassed to leave.

"Okay, Erdan, Loach, you two go out and play first." After criticizing us, my father finally showed mercy.

After we walked out the door, my father locked the door. Sitting on the stone bench on the side of the road, the sun was so hot that people were napping, I leaned on my cousin's back and squinted, thinking about my aunt, I always felt very familiar.

Suddenly, my heart thumped, and I jumped up and looked at my cousin.

"Loach, what are you doing!" The cousin was taken aback.

"Brother, isn't our aunt already ...... Dead? ”