Chapter 3: The Coming Again
"Girl, look at you, Dad is uneducated, don't be like Dad."
Dad caught up, "In this way, you help Dad once, Dad promised to buy you a notebook and incense ......"
"Really?"
Hmm~ I'm excited again.
I have some little hobbies that don't fit in with my peers in the village.
Two of the most special are scripture copying and incense.
This fall, I was promoted to the third year of junior high school, and Aunt Feng was afraid that my addiction to hobbies would affect my studies, so she wouldn't let me buy calligraphy anymore.
She didn't want me to light incense either, because it seemed to her that it was only necessary to go to the grave and worship the gods.
My act of inserting a stick of incense before going to bed was weird in her eyes.
It was as if I was going to send myself away.
And she thinks that smoke is not good for the body.
I had no choice but to invite Grandpa Cai and tell her that incense was calming.
I just order a small half-root, and I simply like the fragrance.
Aunt Feng made a concession after hearing this, the incense can be ordered, and the rest of the hobbies must be put aside and discussed after being admitted to the university.
I didn't fight with her, it's not that I don't dare, it's that I can't do it.
Aunt Feng's temper is notoriously hot in the village, and when she is in a hurry, she will wear a four-piece suit.
Scold first and then fight alone, if you can't beat her, you will continue to make trouble, that is really a poisonous pesticide in one hand, and a small rope in the other hand to hang.
What's more, she is still pregnant, her heart is anxious, and it is not easy to make concessions.
I thought about buying it secretly, but there is a lot of pocket money, and my father mentioned it at the moment......
Don't miss it!
"Dad, then I want ten, no, twenty copybooks, ink to three, no, five bottles, incense sticks to natural agarwood......"
"Buy, buy them all!"
Dad was happy, "Let's go, go to your grandfather Li's house, you are kind to the old Li family, and Mr. will be able to invite ......."
Grace?
I was stunned for a few seconds before I remembered.
Dad was referring to the fact that I had told Li Qingshan's wife that she had a little brother in her belly.
That was four years ago, Aunt Yuzhen was not young, and her son Li Qiang and my eldest sister were still high school classmates.
Aunt Yuzhen thought that I was a child, and told the aunt next to me that she was having a menstrual affair.
I emphasized that I have a younger brother, so that she must not take medicine indiscriminately, my brother will cry.
Aunt Yuzhen went to the health center for a check-up in disbelief, and it really happened.
Menstruation is not a sign of miscarriage, she has that kind of physique.
In the end, she successfully gave birth to a young son.
The people in the village were curious about how I could see that Aunt Yuzhen was pregnant.
I can't describe what it was like.
Through the belly of the clothes, I feel that who I am facing face-to-face is my younger brother, and if I vaguely see my back, it is my younger sister.
It just so happened that I was close to Grandpa Cai, and everyone said that I was going to pick up Cai's cousin, and it was a little fairy child who opened his eyes.
Pregnant women came to me to look at my belly, and I felt that it was my sister, and I would still say that it was my brother.
Because when I want to tell the truth, I hear crying, and my heart is blocked, and I can't say anything.
When the secret was revealed, everyone saw that I was not allowed to do it, so they turned the page about Aunt Yuzhen as a coincidence.
After the age of twelve, I lost this skill.
On the bright side, it was an oolong farce, but in my father's eyes, I was stunned that I was kind to the Li family.
I was a little helpless, "Dad, didn't you just say that I was a fool at that time." ”
"Just go back to it!"
Dad sighed a little emotionally, "San'er, Dad knows that you respect Grandpa Cai, and Dad also respects him, when did you say that Dad went to Lao Cai's house empty-handed?" Including the people who have taken care of you in this village, Dad's etiquette is in place, sometimes, Dad really thinks that you have Lingqiao, Lao Cai's things can't be learned by adults, you can be stunned, no wonder Uncle Cai said, you are the second person, old girl, you are good, you are not a son. ”
Someone again?
Thinking of childhood.
I like to play with praying mantis, but my mom won't let me touch it.
She said that the female praying mantis had parasites in her big belly and was very numb.
I would put the mantis in the basin of water, and it wouldn't be long before the worms would come out of the butt of the female mantis.
"Mom, look, this is the method that the eldest sister taught me, and the mother of the knife mantis won't have a pain in her stomach."
My mother asked me to go over, touched my head and said, "Yingying, your grandfather Cai is accurate, he said that you are a bodhisattva again, and you have a good heart." ”
"Mom, Dad said that Grandpa Cai couldn't calculate accurately, and I was wrong."
Mom shook her head and smiled, weak, smiling and smiling, with tears in her eyes, "Yingying, your father will understand sooner or later that it is the blessing of his old family that you can come to Lao Wanjia." ”
I wiped her tears ignorantly, why am I blessed, but my mother has to cry?
Soon after, my mother passed away in her sleep.
Life has to go on, and Dad continues to be busy with work.
When he was busy farming, he farmed, and when he was not working, he went to the surrounding villages and towns to help people build houses, yards, walls, and pigsties.
The eldest sister was admitted to high school at that time, and she didn't go home much when she studied and lived in the town.
I became an unsupervised child, playing outside during the day, and at night when my father came back late, I would sit at the door and wait.
The village aunt saw that I was pitiful, and would call me to go to the house to eat, and when I was too hungry, I would go to eat, and after eating, I would help pick up the bowl and clean up the table.
When the farm was busy, the family did not have enough hands, and in those years, there were babies who were bitten by rats at home, so they had to rely on the elderly and older children to take care of them at home.
I just happened to look at the child's lack of children, don't look at my small, who wants to entrust the baby to me, I can look at it carefully.
I don't turn things over or sneak out to play, just buy me a dime picture book.
When the baby was asleep, I would lie down next to me and write and draw, and I could wait until the adult came back.
As the days went by, everyone praised me for being sensible.
Even though I love to drill into the mountains, my temperament is not wild, but I can be well-behaved.
In the three years when my mother passed away and my father didn't marry Aunt Feng, I grew up under the care of the villagers.
Among them, the best for me is Grandpa Cai's family.
He taught me a lot of pre-school knowledge.
At that time, my father saw that it was okay for me to run around in the village, and sent me to the first grade at the age of six.
Thanks to Grandpa Cai, I also skipped one level in elementary school.
If I hadn't jumped again and found that I couldn't keep up, Dad really thought I was the reincarnation of some kind of prodigy.
For a long time, I was a regular visitor to Grandpa Cai's house.
When he was showing people, I peeked at the door.
When encountering a child who is crying and sick, Grandpa Cai will ask someone to take a few dollars first.
pressed it under the incense bowl, saying that this was the money of the hall.
In some cases, the owner will take out a big ticket without saying a word, and use the money to show sincerity first.
Some people will be puzzled, why do some people don't charge money, and leave some agricultural and sideline products, you don't have to wait to see the money?
Grandpa Cai explained that one place is one order, and the rules are different when subdivided, although he hangs gold in this hall, that is, he is a talker, and he will not accept more money, just three or five yuan means it, which means that the road is not empty.
After the incense, Grandpa Cai will chat with the child's family.
If you brush a child's fingers, you will be able to give it a good look, which is very magical.