"Knock, knock."

Where is this, I can't breathe, I can't move my hands and feet, it's so uncomfortable.

Shouts, footsteps, quarrels were accompanied by the sound of falling water.

Xu An clearly felt that someone was holding his arm, and the darkness in front of him gradually dissipated, and the light became brighter and brighter.

The man who was kneeling on Xu An's side and doing heart compressions was suddenly overturned by a huge force under him, and before he could react, he heard the cheers of the crowd around him.

"Wake up, wake up, rescued, people live."

After a period of vomiting that was so violent that it seemed to vomit out his heart and lungs, Xu An's attention slowly focused, and he found that his right hand was pinching a fish hard, a fish whose flesh and blood were so blurred that he couldn't tell that it was a fish.

The moment he saw this fish, Xu An subconsciously carried it into his arms. His subconscious mind told him that this fish was very important to him.

This strange movement startled the people around him, and several people who had wanted to step forward to help him up slowly returned to the crowd.

An old woman shouted at Xu An with some hesitation: "Xu family boy, Xu family boy? ”

Xu An looked up at the person who spoke, the old woman was about seventy years old, her silver hair was neatly kept, she had a kind smile on her face, and she was holding a laundry full of foam in her hand, she should have been washing clothes just now.

Isn't this the third grandmother in the village, but didn't she pass away three years ago, how can she appear here alive, and there is nothing unusual about the people around her.

A severe headache hit, and large tracts of memories appeared in Xu An's mind.

Xu An remembered when the scene in front of him had happened.

Fifteen years ago, my grandmother fell down the stairs and broke her right leg, and returned home to recuperate after being treated in the hospital. In order to supplement his grandmother's nutrition, he went to the river to catch fish, but he encountered a drowning with a foot cramp and was rescued.

Another image came to Xu An's mind at the same time, he stood on the reef by the sea, the waves rolled up one after another, and a huge wave swept him into the sea waiting for rescue.

Xu An looked at his body, wearing a fat and shabby striped T-shirt with patches, two legs like bamboo poles under the coarse cloth shorts, and two vegetable leaves hanging on his feet.

This is his favorite set of clothes when he used to go out to work, until he went to chop wood at the end of the summer vacation of his junior year of high school and was hooked by a branch, and he was directly torn into several pieces, and it was not easy to sew, so he gave up this beloved dress.

Is this back fifteen years ago, during the summer vacation after the college entrance examination?

"The Buddha said that there are many things, but there are too many feelings in life; Love and hate drag back and forth, sad and tight. ”

The cell phone rang suddenly, and the man pulled it out of his pocket. Xu An saw the date on the screen, June 13, 2012.

June 13th, 2012!

At this time, the younger siblings have not yet been sent to my sister-in-law's house!

Xu An jumped up, thanked the enthusiastic villagers around him in a hurry, and ran home.

Suddenly pushed open the door of the courtyard of the house, and saw the younger brothers and sisters cleaning the vegetable leaves in the yard, Xu An hugged the two into his arms.

The younger brother's name is Xu Kang, and the younger sister's name is Xu Le, who is a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses. On June 15, he was sent to the sister-in-law's house who had been married for seven years and had no children and no daughters, and went up to the sister-in-law's household registration, and became Xu An's cousin and cousin from his brother and sister.

"Brother, you made me so uncomfortable." The two pushed Xu An hard, trying to push him away, but the person was small and had little strength, and Xu An didn't move.

Hearing this, Xu An woke up from his memories, quickly let go of his hand, and kneaded the delicate faces of the two of them fiercely.

Xu Le got out of Xu An's arms, looked behind Xu An, didn't see the familiar fish basket, and immediately asked with some disappointment: "Brother, what about Yuyu, didn't my brother go to catch Yuyu, didn't he catch Yuyu?" ”

Xu An rubbed Xu Le's head, looked at the yellow and thin faces of the two, and said apologetically: "Brother didn't catch fish and fish, so don't eat fish and fish today, is it okay to eat meat?" ”

Hearing Xu An's words, the two villains looked at Xu An with disbelief on their faces, and their eyes widened and looked at Xu An: "Brother, do you really eat meat, is it the meat on the pigs?" ”

Xu An looked at the little eyes of the two of them expectantly, smiled and nodded the little noses of the two, and said definitely: "Yes, I will eat the meat of the pig today." ”

"Woohoo, eat meat, eat meat, eat pork pork!"

The two of them excitedly circled around Xu An, and kept muttering about meat in their mouths as they ran.

In 2012, most families were living a life of meat. But in the Xu family, you can still eat a small meal of meat luxuriously only during the New Year's Festival.

Xu's mother died of hemorrhage when she gave birth to Xu Kang Xu Le, Xu's father worked on the construction site, and in order to make more money, he took the initiative to do some more dangerous work, fell from the upstairs and died, and after several ruffles, he was compensated 30,000 yuan.

Since then, Grandma Xu is the only one left in the immediate family of the Xu family, but fortunately, Grandma Xu is in good health, planting vegetables full of vegetable gardens, and selling them in the market every day, so that she can earn some living expenses and live a decent life.

But Grandma Xu broke her leg while repairing the house a week ago, and the money for the treatment was taken out of the 30,000 yuan in compensation, spending more than 10,000 yuan, which made the already poor family even worse.

"Anzi, is Anzi back?"

Grandma Xu seemed to hear the movement coming from outside the house, and the weak voice reached the outside of the house through the window.

Stopped the two of them from playing, locked the courtyard door, and Xu An walked into the house.

When you enter the living room, you are greeted by a long table with three red plastic incense burners and three black and white photographs hanging on the wall above the incense burners.

From left to right, Grandpa Xu, Dad Xu and Mama Xu.

On the left side of the living room against the wall is a bulky solid wood square table, the red lacquer on the table is mottled, revealing the original wood color.

On the square table was a plate of pickles, and next to the pickles lay two shriveled apples, covered by a red fly cover.

Turn left and you'll find my grandmother's room, an empty room with a simple wooden bed made of stools and planks of varying lengths.

A shriveled bamboo is tied to the four corners of the wooden bed, and a yellowish mosquito net hangs.

In the corner of the room are several dark-colored jars, tightly covered with wooden boards, which are pickle jars that have been handed down by the Xu family for forty or fifty years.

Grandma Xu was half-leaning against the wall, covered with a navy blue thin quilt, and a silver thread was a little messy behind her head, and when she saw Xu An coming in, she asked with concern: "Anzi, where did you go out this morning?" ”

Suddenly hearing his grandmother's concern, Xu An's nose was sour, tears rolled around, and it took a long time to suppress this emotion, pretending to be normal and saying: "If you don't pick a lot of vegetables in the field, you will get old, so I went to pick the vegetables early in the morning and sold them in the market." ”

Grandma Xu looked at Xu An's performance and knew that he was not telling the truth. But now that his legs and feet are not good, he can't even get out of bed, Xu An doesn't want to tell himself, and he can't help it, so he didn't ask and changed the topic.

"I picked all those vegetables, how much money did I buy."

Xu An took out a handful of wet banknotes from his pocket, quickly counted them, there were fifty-one and five cents in total, and began to make up them according to this total.

"I picked five catties of green beans, three pieces and five catties; bitter gourd picked four for a total of three catties, three pieces of one catty; The tomatoes were picked for almost ten catties, two pieces and five pounds; A total of fifty-one and a half cents were sold. ”

Grandma Xu looked at the wet banknotes in Xu An's hand and didn't answer, so quiet that Xu Anxin was a little hairy.

"It will take a long time for my leg to heal, and you will collect the money from selling vegetables, and use it where you need it on weekdays."

After that, Grandma Xu pulled up the quilt and lay down sideways, with her back to Xu An.

Xu An smoothed out the creases on the banknotes, folded them one by one and put them back in his pocket, and looked back at the door.

It was only at this time that Xu An found himself wet from top to bottom, leaving a wet footprint everywhere he walked.