107. Red dragonfly
Bai Gu was tired of crying, so he sat down in the snow, swollen with two big walnut-like eyes, snot and sobbing in front of the small grave, only looking at the small tombstone, silent for a long time.
The rough fabric was still clutched tightly in his hand.
This piece of cloth was when Bai Gu was seven years old, Mrs. Bai washed and dried a torn coat that she picked up from the garbage heap, and then cut out the parts that were still intact on it, and then cut it out and sewn it, and finally pieced it together into a small cloth shirt, which was given to Bai Gu as a birthday gift when he was young at the time.
Because she didn't know the specific time of Bai Gu's birth, Mrs. Bai made her own decision and set the day she raised Bai Gu as Bai Gu's birthday.
It was Chinese New Year's Eve.
Bai Gu still remembers that when he put on the "new clothes" of Mrs. Bai, he was happy for a long time, happily ran several laps in the alley, showed off with his friends for a while, and envied them so much that they ran home one after another, begging the adults at home for new clothes to wear.
Then Bai Gu continued to run away from the alley, continuing to show off his "new clothes".
Although on Chinese New Year's Eve that year, Bai Gu still ate happily despite the half bowl of rancid minced meat soup that Old Lady Bai had worked so hard to get from the street, as well as a large pot of porridge water made from a small bowl of leftover rice.
Because there was an old lady sitting next to her, wearing new clothes sewn by the old lady Bai herself, her body was warm, her heart was even warmer, and she felt that she was full of Han people when she ate.
The crooked, red-like dragonfly that looked like a big mosquito was made by Bai Gu when Mrs. Bai was sewing clothes for him, and then she was pulled by Mrs. Bai to embroider it together.
In the end, it was up to Mrs. Bai to make up for the dragonfly's belly, otherwise it would really be a dragonfly.
Bai Gu originally wanted to let Mrs. Bai's dragonfly be arranged on her chest, so that when she wore it out, she could show off her capital more abundantly. But the old lady Bai still sewed the red dragonfly on the hem of her clothes and sewed it on the inner lining, so that it was not visible from the outside.
Bai Gu thought that the red dragonfly was lost at first, and went to ask Mrs. Bai. But the old lady Bai directly pointed out the location of the red dragonfly to him, and told him the reason for doing so.
"This is a good thing, you have to put it away and hide it, and just look at it and rejoice in it. Don't let outsiders see it, you have a bad idea and steal it, and it's too late to regret it! ”
With Mrs. Bai's explanation, Bai Gu happily dressed and went out to show off. Of course, he also consciously didn't show off the red dragonfly to his friends, and hid it well!
You can't steal it with hot eyes, this is what you worked so hard to embroider!
Later, Mrs. Bai died, according to the custom of Lingding Lane, when the old man was buried, he should put a piece of his own clothes and those closest to him into the coffin, so that the old man would not feel lonely when he went to the underworld, and he would feel that his relatives were still around, and he could also go on the road with peace of mind.
This is called sending home clothes.
There were not many clothes at home, and Bai Gu used a lot of things to exchange for a small coffin to bury Mrs. Bai, so when sending the family clothes, Xiao Bai Gu was at a loss and didn't know which clothes to take.
Because they are all clothes that are usually worn, two thin shirts are worn alternately in the summer, and four in the winter, and two of them are layered, and they are also worn in turns. No matter which one you take, you will have to wear one piece of clothing all the time in a certain season, and you don't have to change it.
There was really no way, so the kind-hearted neighbor casually ripped off a cloth shirt, threw it away, and hurriedly helped nail the coffin of the old lady Bai.
That cloth shirt is the cloth shirt that Mrs. Bai personally sewed and embroidered with red dragonflies, Bai Gu's favorite cloth shirt.
It was on that day that the cloth shirt that had been sent out from Mrs. Bai returned to Mrs. Bai again.
Since that day, Bai Gu has never seen this red dragonfly again.
Later, Bai Gu began to live alone, and it didn't take long for him to adopt Bai Xiaoxiao, and life became even more difficult. The few things in the house were also exchanged for food that Bai Gu could take.
When the house was the cleanest, there was only a wooden bed, a thin quilt and two pieces of clothes left, one for Bai Gu and Bai Xiaoxiao, and they didn't have to be washed.
Other clothes, quilts, wooden tables and chairs were all taken by Bai Gu to change for a bite to eat.
Originally, in addition to the wooden house and wooden bed, the only thing that Mrs. Bai left for Bai Gu was the line of words engraved on the wall.
Bai Gu originally thought that Mrs. Bai had died, and she took away all the things that had memories of each other in the family at once, and almost didn't want to leave them for him.
Bai Gu has always been sad, thinking that he is his grandson who is too noisy, and Mrs. Bai doesn't like it, so she doesn't want to leave him a souvenir at all, and he has been sad for a long time.
It's just that he figured it out later.
These are all created and brought by grandma, and even I can live in this world because of my grandma.
I am the best proof that my grandmother left in the world, and I also left the greatest memory to myself.
In this way, isn't it enough?
It's just that Bai Gu is still unwilling and regretful in his heart.
Because there are too few things that grandma left him, and there is nothing that he can carry with him to give him hope and perseverance.
But it's okay, at least on the way to escape, I won't be caught up by the hotel's junior and the guys in the restaurant and beaten half to death, and then I will be robbed of my grandmother's relics as food money.
Thinking about it in this way, I can comfort myself a lot.
It is when countless people stand at the corner of the street, hungry and don't know what to do, don't know if they can eat tonight, and worry about whether Bai Xiaoxiao at home will be afraid of the black and hungry, Bai Gu's heart is always empty, not steady, and always feels that there is a cliff behind him, and he can't get it, and he can't find a place to rely on.
From beginning to end, he was struggling to support himself.
Now Bai Gu got the red dragonfly fabric that Old Lady Bai had cut off before her death from the white-robed Xu Ye, which made his heart, which had been hanging empty, finally have a place to rest.
After all these years, I finally have a common memory with my grandmother!
It's a real, real memory!
It's that little shirt!
It is the taste of porridge water on Chinese New Year's Eve at the age of seven!
Bai Gu will never forget, this is something engraved in his bones.
It's just that Bai Gu can't understand, how did grandma know that her red dragonfly shirt would be thrown into the coffin, and then cut it out in advance and send it to the old snow peak to hand it over to the white-robed Xu Ye?
And listening to the words of the white-robed Xu Ye, I feel that the old lady Bai seems to have a layout for a long time, what kind of light barrier is prepared by grandma for herself?
Could it be that grandma is also a cultivator?
Bai Gu's brows furrowed slightly.
Brother Peng, Lao Liu Tou, and the two Xu Ye, who knew the old lady Bai or had a good relationship, were all cultivators. Mrs. Bai dealt with them almost every day, and even laid out for them after death before her death, just to protect herself.
Bai Gu didn't believe that an old woman who had no cultivation and no power to restrain the chicken could have such a calculation, and she could make Wu Lao, Lao Liu Tou, the two Xu Ye, and Qiu Zi at the same time, these masters had no clue about the light barrier for a while, and they couldn't even say the slightest thought.
Bai Gu even wondered if the golden light in his left eye was still related to Old Lady Bai.
Bai Gu sighed, holding the rough fabric embroidered with red dragonflies in his hand, and his eyes were fixed on the tombstone of the old lady Bai.
Grandma, what are your plans? Can't you just talk to me and say hello first? Do you have to reveal the mystery at the last minute and scare me out for fun?
Grandma, I'm grown up, I'm not a kid anymore, it's time to take on something. There's so much stuff to hide, it's not good!
Grandma, I've started practicing now, and I'm going to be very powerful in no time, and I'll be able to fly and do anything like I thought when I was a child! I'll show you in front of you!
Grandma, the little illness is cured, but the dark illness is still there, and she may be ready to leave in the next few days. A small dark illness can't be delayed, so I may not be able to come and see you for the Chinese New Year this year. I will ask Brother Peng to come and see you, you have to bless me and Xiaoxiao, be safe and sound along the way, find Wanghaishi as soon as possible, only a small dark illness, and then come back safely.
Grandma, you haven't been to my dream once in all these years, what are you busy with, why don't you even come to see me?
Grandma, I miss you.