Chapter 9: Grandchildren
This little cabbage is indeed overly beautiful, with white rhizomes at the bottom, and emerald green leaves on top, and the leaves are greatly clustered together, emerald green with clarity, as if they were ...... It's like a shining jadeite.
And the white rhizome underneath is like white jade.
Xie Ning uprooted a small cabbage and put it in the palm of his hand to look at it, if it weren't for this stem, the leaves would be soft and soft, and there would be a vegetable taste, and I thought it was a little cabbage shape made of white jade and jade. It's pleasing to the eye no matter how you look at it.
"I've never seen a little cabbage grow so well, this should be called jade cabbage." The rest of the Xie family also pondered.
"This little cabbage seems to be growing exactly the same, the same size, and even the number of leaves is the same. You say, "Isn't it the same weight?" ”
But no, they counted, and they were all 15 leaves, you must know that ordinary cabbage only has 7-12 leaves.
"Grandpa, Mom and Dad, why don't we pick some cabbage and go back and fry it tonight?" Shainin proposed.
Zhang Yuqin hesitated a little: "This, don't wait any longer, this little cabbage is still tender." ”
Grandpa Xie waved his hand: "It's so tender that it's delicious." ”
Lao Xie: "That's right, pick it." ”
"Okay, then pick it, I'll go get a basket and come out."
By the time Zhang Yuqin returned to the field with the basket, Grandpa Xie and Lao Xie were already holding a handful of cabbage in their hands, and finally Xie Ning went back with a basket full of cabbage.
"I'll weigh this little cabbage." Comrade Lao Xie took out an electronic scale, shook off the soil on the cabbage, and put it on to weigh.
Hey, that's it, and it really makes him happy.
"Come and see, our little cabbage is really a god, not only looks good, like jade, but it is really exactly the same, even the weight is the same, each one is 100 grams." Comrade Lao Xie has weighed more than a dozen trees, all of which are the same 100 grams.
"Really?"
Grandpa Xie didn't believe it, and then picked up the other cabbages in the basket and said, don't say, it's really 100 grams per tree.
"Hey, that's weird."
"If you take out this dish and sell it, you don't need to weigh it, just five trees are a catty."
"Ning Ning, the seeds you bought are really magical."
Xie Ning smiled: "Yes, I also think it's magical." ”
Lao Xie: "I just don't know what it tastes like, to be honest, this dish is so good-looking, I can't bear to eat it." ”
Zhang Yuqin lifted the basket, "If you don't eat this dish, you can still see it, whether it's delicious or not, you will know if you try it tonight." ”
It's just that when she was stir-frying at night, Zhang Yuqin looked at the basket full of cabbage and sighed: "We shouldn't pick so much, there are only five of us, and we can't eat all of them, and it will definitely not be so fresh tomorrow morning." ”
"Mom, why don't I send some to Grandma Cai and Xiaoming." Shainin proposed.
Zhang Yuqin's eyes lit up and patted her thigh, "Yes, I'll give some to Grandma Cai and Xiaoming, your Grandma Cai was very good to you when she was young, and she used to talk to you from time to time, and Xiaoming's kid used to stick to you from time to time." ”
Zhang Yuqin took out the amount to be fried tonight, and let Xie Ning carry the rest to Grandma Cai.
Xie Ning went out with a basket, thinking about Grandma Cai and Xiaoming.
Grandma Cai and Xiaoming are grandchildren, but they are not grandchildren, Xiaoming was picked up by Grandma Cai.
Calculate the age, Grandma Cai is eighty-one years old this year, and she only got a pair of excellent children in middle age, but unfortunately her wife died early, she raised a pair of children by herself, both children are very good, the son became a soldier, and the daughter became a policeman, but unfortunately the two died one after another, and they didn't even have time to leave their descendants.
Grandma Cai became a martyr's family, lost her wife in middle age, and lost a pair of children in old age, for Grandma Cai, it was an unspeakable pain, a scar that was difficult to heal, she lived alone in Qingshui Village, and her spirit was less.
It's just that I didn't expect that fourteen years ago, Grandma Cai picked up a little baby.
The little baby was a boy, abandoned on the side of the road, a pair of legs were abnormal, it was winter, the children were almost frozen to death, and even the crying was very weak.
Grandma Cai couldn't bear it, so she took the baby back, and later went to the hospital for examination, and sure enough, the doctor said that the baby's leg was a congenital disability and could not be cured in his life, probably because of this, he was abandoned.
It's okay to find your biological parents, but even if you send them back, the little baby who can be abandoned will definitely have a bad life.
It's okay to send it to an orphanage, but in the end, it's lonely, and Grandma Cai can't bear it.
In the end, Grandma Cai decided to adopt the child, and named her Xiaoming.
Only the grandparents and grandchildren have been dependent on each other in Qingshui Village for 14 years, although Xiaoming is disabled, but Grandma Cai still provides him with education, and now, Xiaoming should go to junior high school.
Because Grandma Cai is a family member of a martyr, whether she is a person, she used to be very good to the children in the village, she would give the children candy to eat, tell them stories, she also read books, she is a cultured, temperamental, and well-educated grandmother. Children like Grandma Cai, and if the people in the village have something, they will send it to Grandma Cai from time to time, which is respect and gratitude, just because Grandma Cai helped them more when she was young.
After walking for three minutes, Xie Ning arrived at the door of Grandma Cai's house.
Grandma Cai's house is also a small farm yard, there are vegetables growing in the yard, looking good, standing outside the yard, you can faintly hear the sound of talking from inside.
"Grandma Cai, Xiaoming~" Xie Ning shouted.
In the room, the conversation stopped, and after a while, someone came out.
The old man had gray hair and was on crutches, and the young man was in a wheelchair and pushed himself.
Xie Ning recognized it at a glance, this was Grandma Cai and Xiaoming.
"Who's coming?" Grandma Cai used to cry excessively and her eyes were not good, but now she can't see anything very clearly.
However, Xiaoming recognized Xie Ning at a glance, and his eyes lit up, "Grandma, it's Sister Ning Ning." ”
Grandma Cai suddenly realized, got closer, barely saw Xie Ning clearly, and grabbed her hand, "It's Ning Ning, big girl, it's getting more and more beautiful." ”
Shainin felt the hand holding her, withered, thin, wrinkled, but warm, she did not retract her hand, but held it, put the basket down, and hugged the old man.
"Yes, Grandma Cai, I'm back, and I will stay in the village in the future."
"Really? That's fine, as long as you have the heart, you can develop wherever you want. Grandma Cai smiled and patted her on the back.
"Sister Ning Ning."
After hugging Grandma Cai, seeing the desire of the young man in a wheelchair, Xie Ning also smiled, bent down and gently hugged the young man, causing the young man's white face to be full of excitement and excitement.
Xie Ning habitually touched his head, and the little boy who was a little embarrassed blushed embarrassedly, and whispered: "Sister Ning Ning, I'm not a child anymore." ”