Chapter 1: Memories

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In the intensive care unit of the hospital, listening to the ticking sound of the monitoring equipment, the choked Zhao Ruoxi stared at the silly daddy on the occasion of dying, she held the silly daddy's hand with a trembling hand, just like the silly daddy held her hand when she was a child.

The once unforgettable scenes reappeared uncontrollably in Ruoxi's mind, and everything that was in the mind seemed to have just happened.

In 1988, in the north, in the middle of summer, cicadas chirped everywhere, and the sun was like fire.

Six-year-old Zhao Ruoxi and his friends in Liujia Village are spreading joy in the village, and even the hot summer that dogs, cats and livestock are afraid of, seems to be fearless for them, and a group of people tirelessly run from the east end of the village to the west end, and then from the west to the east end, making the country road dusty, as if a group of foals have just galloped by.

At the west end of the village there is a row of mud houses, which are not high, and are used to raise livestock.

When Ruoxi and his friends passed by the earthen house, someone found a sparrow's nest on the roof, and a group of curious people all climbed onto the roof.

There were several bare newborn sparrows living in the sparrow's nest, and after the group had been playing with the little sparrows for a long time, someone suggested that the baby sparrows should be brought home and raised.

In the end, everyone has a little sparrow, and each of them cares for it as if they were holding their own children.

Everyone came down from the roof one after another, and everyone was ready to go home to help their little sparrows build a new nest.

Children's thoughts are always innocent, and happiness is simple and easy.

The other friends are bigger than Ruoxi, some climb down from the roof with the help of branches, and some dare jump directly to the haystack next to them, only Ruoxi is still on the roof and has not come down.

Seeing that the other friends had successfully come down from the roof, Ruoxi, who also wanted to go home, was anxious, and she shouted:

"Brother Yufan, Brother Yufan, am I still on it?"

Yu Fan didn't believe his eyes and looked up at Ruoxi, and said casually:

"Where you go up, how do you come down!"

Ruoxi replied with an innocent look:

"I don't remember how I got up?"

Yu Fan scratched his head suspiciously, revealing an expression of disbelief.

When the other friends heard it, they hurriedly came up with ideas, some let Ruoxi jump directly onto the haystack, some taught Ruoxi how to climb down from the branches step by step, and even let Ruoxi jump down directly and catch it together••••••

Unexpectedly, Ruoxi was instinctively afraid, and these methods were unsuccessful, so anxious that the friends stomped their feet.

Ruoxi, who saw that there was no drama, was so anxious that she cried out:

"My milk, my milk, Li Xiuhua, where are you in a corner, come and save me." The anxious Ruoxi called her grandmother's name.

Seeing Ruoxi, who was crying sadly, Yu Fan comforted:

"Don't cry, I'll help you find your milk."

Ruoxi wiped away his tears with lightning speed, nodded again and again:

"Yes."

Yu Fan ran until the east end of the village and saw Grandma Ruoxi working in the field from a distance, and he made a horn with his hands around his mouth and shouted:

"Ruoxi milk, your family Ruoxi can't come down."

Ruoxi's grandmother was old and her ears were not good, so she didn't hear Yufan's shouts.

Seeing that Grandma Ruoxi did not respond, the anxious Yu Fan repeated several times on the ridge, and his shouts echoed back and forth on the empty field.

Yu Fan's shouts beckoned all the birds, and there was no response from Grandma Ruoxi.

I really couldn't stand it and couldn't listen to the word of mouth of the villagers who were also working in the fields, and passed the words to Grandma Ruoxi one after another.

The last one that reached Grandma's ears was:

"If you go down to the tide, you won't be able to come up."

Grandma Ruoxi, who heard the rumor, muttered:

"Why can't you go down, where is this girl going crazy?"

Then the grandmother replied:

"If you can't get up, you have to wait for this bit of work in my hand to finish, I can't wait for this work in the hot weather."

So the villagers passed on Grandma Ruoxi's reply to Yufan one by one.

Yu Fan, who heard the reply, ran from the east end of the village to the west end of the village again, and he told Ruoxi breathlessly:

"Your grandmother said that she would come when the work in hand is finished, and if she doesn't finish it, she won't be able to live today."

Anxious and disappointed, Ruoxi nodded blankly, and she said to Yu Fan with an idea:

"Then call me stupid daddy here! I'm stupid, daddy, I can't finish my work today. ”

Yu Fan ran to Ruoxi's house again, and when he saw the stupid daddy who was picking up dung, Yu Fan was so tired that he was panting, and he patted his chest and said to the stupid daddy:

"Silly Daddy, your family can't come down if the tide comes."

The stupid daddy didn't ask anything, without saying a word, he dropped the dung bucket in his hand, and followed behind Yu Fan with a quick walk, and the anxious Yu Fan saw the stupid daddy who was left behind, and urged while covering his nose:

"Silly big daddy, you should hurry up, I still have to go home to build a nest for my little sparrow."

So the stupid daddy followed Yu Fan at a gallop.

Silly daddy is Ruoxi's father's brother, that is, grandma's eldest son, tall and strong, likes to giggle, since he was a child, he had meningitis fever and fever for many days, and his brain stopped developing, this is what Ruoxi heard from his grandmother, and a sentence that grandma often hangs on his lips is:

"Silly daddy is not stupid, he just retains his innocence."

As for why the stupid daddy is so edible, Ruoxi can't figure it out, maybe it's because his brain hasn't developed well.

At that time, the stupid daddy could eat three or four bowls of rice every meal, and no one knew how good he could eat if he was full.

Grandma said that the stupid daddy was very able to eat when he was a child, and the materials were very scarce at that time, and the stupid daddy of the teenager was always not full.

Sometimes he was so hungry that he couldn't stand it, and the little stupid father didn't dare to break the unripe corn in the field, so he directly picked up the corn bud leaves and lay down on the corn to gnaw, gnaw two bites and then close the bud leaves.

What is a headache is that the stupid daddy only nibbles one or two bites on each corn and then changes it to another one, and always gnaws on other people's fields, sometimes picking one family to gnaw.

At that time, the most common complaint my grandmother received was that your family was "not enough to eat" and whose land was gone.

If there are many complaints, everyone in the village will know about it, and the nickname of "can't eat" of the stupid daddy has also been passed down from that time.

Another time, the hungry little stupid father secretly drank sorghum wine, which had a sweet taste, and he drank it as sugar water, and it is said that he drank a whole large jar.

After drinking, the little stupid daddy slept for two days and one night, and he couldn't wake up no matter how he screamed, so anxious that his grandmother cried, and called the people from the health center, and the people from the health center replied:

"It's okay, you can't die, and you don't have to worry about being stupid."

Silly daddy wasn't very reliable when he was a child.

Finally, the stupid daddy followed Yu Fan to the earthen house.

Ruoxi, who was stretching his neck and looking down, shouted excitedly when he saw the stupid big daddy:

"Silly daddy, I'm here, save me."

Seeing Ruoxi's stupid big daddy, he clenched his fists nervously and spun around in place a few times.

Seeing the stupid daddy who can only turn in circles, Ruoxi complained:

"Silly Daddy, don't just go around in circles, hurry up and find a way to save me!"

At this time, the stupid daddy stretched out his arms and smirked at Ruoxi, signaling Ruoxi to jump down and let himself catch it.

"I don't dare to jump, or you can climb up from the branch over there and pick me up!" Ruoxi pointed to the tree next to the earthen house and said.

Silly Daddy climbed up to the roof smoothly with the help of a branch, and when he saw Silly Daddy climbing up, Ruoxi happily asked Silly Daddy to take him down.

But the stupid daddy who climbed up easily didn't know what was wrong, his legs were shaking uncontrollably, not to mention taking Ruoxi down, and it was quite difficult to even stand.

Ruoxi looked at the trembling legs of the stupid daddy and asked:

"Silly Daddy, what's wrong with you? Do you want to pee? ”

Silly Daddy shook his head and said:

"It's not."

Yu Fan, who was standing below, covered his stomach and laughed and said:

"Silly daddy is scared."

Several other friends also laughed, leaning forward and closing their backs one by one.

Looking at the stupid daddy who was ridiculed by his friends, Ruoxi said angrily:

"I'm stupid, Daddy is so stupid!"

Silly Daddy grabbed the back of his head and smirked at Ruoxi, but didn't speak.

Yu Fan, who finished the communication, went home, and the other friends also went home one after another, leaving only the weak Ruoxi and the tall stupid father to stay on the roof alone.

At this time, Ruoxi reacted, she covered her nose and said to the stupid daddy:

"Stinky Daddy, you stink!"

Ruoxi glanced at the stupid daddy with disgust, and the silly daddy looked at Ruoxi with a smile.

There was no way, the two could only wait for their grandmother to come.

In this way, one big and one small lay quietly on the roof.

The two looked at the clear blue sky, at the birds soaring in the sky, at the chirping of the trees, and at the frolic of ducks in the river••••••

Unconsciously, Ruoxi and Silly Daddy fell asleep and fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took, the sun set, and the sunset was slowly reflected on the roof, reflecting on the two of them, making the two look very harmonious and moving.

The breeze gently brushed the cheeks of Ruoxi and Silly Big Daddy, and the two slowly woke up.

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