Since grandpa's poor health, people are not as majestic as before, and grandma is not as afraid of him as before, and sometimes dares to talk back to grandpa.

Grandma is seven or eight years younger than grandpa, grandma is a woman who has wrapped her little feet and put it away, she is vigorous and resolute, speaks loudly, is wrapped in a headscarf all the year round, wears a patched placket clothes, and the trouser hem is always tied with strips of cloth.

Under the care of my grandfather, I got better, the wound that was pulled open by the rope also healed, my two brothers had to study, I had to cut the grass for the donkey and sheep every day, and I had to go to the field to help my father with farm work, my father didn't hate me and didn't like me, except for helping him work, my appearance was dispensable in his eyes, maybe it was because he would be sad every time he saw me and remembered my dead mother.

When he was seven years old, his grandfather: "Now that society has changed, now girls also need to read and write, I want Lingling to go to school and know a few words, at least she won't be blind." ”

Grandma: "What does a girl do when she reads?" Let's do needlework and learn well, just do the work at home and outside the home, and sooner or later you will get married."

Dad: "Zhan Yuan and Zhan Chun have both gone to school, and you are not in good health, how can I rush over to work in the field?" Besides, there are only a few girls in the village who study. ”

The eldest brother and the second brother "Lingling went to study, who will cut the grass of the donkey and the sheep?" There are not many girls in the school. ”

Grandpa took a few puffs of his dry cigarette, and then coughed repeatedly.

So I went on cutting my grass, feeding my donkeys and sheep, and doing my farm work.

After a year, grandpa couldn't get up, his face was blue, his lips were purple, and the barefoot doctor said that grandpa was suffering from asthma and probably wouldn't survive the winter.

Grandpa is dying? Is it like that? After my grandfather died, will I never see him again? I was so frightened that I quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "God! Please, let my grandfather live, my grandfather is a good person, how can you let a good person die? It's really not okay, let me die and change my grandfather to live, right? ”

I took care of my grandfather with all my heart, bringing water and feeding him every day, pouring and urine, telling him interesting things I saw every day, and sometimes making up stories to tell my grandfather, so my grandfather spent the winter peacefully. I am especially grateful to God, I think it was his manifestation that allowed Grandpa to continue to live.

In the blink of an eye, in the sixth month of the lunar calendar of the second year, one day I came back from mowing the grass for the donkey, and went to see my grandfather in the upper room, and saw that my grandfather's face was suffocated, and he seemed to be out of breath, and his eyes were wide open, as if he had something to say to me, but he couldn't say it, I quickly patted him on the back, he reached out and grabbed my arm fiercely, and his throat snored, and his hand fell, and the person was soft.

I cried out loud and shouted, "Grandpa! Grandfather! Grandpa ......", grandma heard my crying and ran out of the backyard, grandma: "What's the use of crying, why don't you go and call your uncle and them quickly!" So I went and called my uncle to come, and there were a lot of people in the house, and they were all dressed in a birthday coat for my grandfather, and they all said that my grandfather was dead.

My sky suddenly fell, there was no one in this world who loved me anymore, the sky was spinning, and I fainted.

When I woke up, the next day, there was a woman crying in the upper room, crying like singing Qin, I knew it should be my two aunts, grandpa has no daughters, only three sons.

The yard was full of people, and I was lying on the kitchen kang and looking at the roof, and the rafters were lying on the roof one by one, and I seemed to see my grandfather playing on the roof, and he happily jumped from one rafter to another. I said to my neighbor's aunt who was helping to cook at the stove, "Look at my grandfather on the roof!" The aunt was so frightened that she hurried to find her grandmother: "Your granddaughter is scary, saying that his grandfather is on the roof, and I dare not stay in the kitchen alone." Grandma came in and saw me staring at the roof and scolded, "You damn it, why don't you get up and help with the work, lie here and pretend to be crazy and stupid." As he spoke, he dragged me up from the kang, and as soon as I got off the kang, I fell to the ground, and my grandmother scolded again: "What's the use of keeping you, I'm sick for three days, hurry up and lie down on the kang, I have poured eight lifetimes of mold, not only to serve the old, to serve the young, but also to serve you, the bane of dazzling rice......" The neighbor's aunt said: "Auntie, don't scold, in fact, this child is quite sensible, and quite pitiful, usually grandpa hurts, this grandpa is dead, she must be sad, don't you scold so much, isn't this about to grow up, You still have two bald heads (two male babies), at least this female baby can change a granddaughter-in-law for your family, right? "When she doesn't grow up, I'll be exhausted to death." Sure enough, my grandmother said that I was right, and my grandmother passed away two years later, but since then, my grandmother has scolded me a lot less.

Three days later, in the morning, my grandfather was put in a coffin and taken to a field not far from my house for burial.

It was raining that day, and the person who carried the coffin was afraid that the yellow soil under his feet would slip, so he used double the person to carry his grandfather's coffin, and his grandfather's coffin was carried forward by people, the wind was blowing, and the rain was falling. When they arrived at the ground, they tied and hung Grandpa's coffin with a rope, and stood in four teams at the four corners, each team grabbed a rope, slowly put Grandpa's coffin into the tomb dug in advance, and finished filling in the mound of soil to make a large bag of soil.

Everyone burned paper money for grandpa, burned boys and girls made of paper, and burned tables and chairs made of paper, etc., and after burning, the whole team went back.

I want to stay with my grandfather, is it too cold and lonely for him to lie alone under this wet dirt? I lay down cautiously, leaning against my grandfather's grave, as close as I could, trying to talk to him, but I was so choked up that I couldn't say anything. I looked at the sky, and the rain fell on my face, my body, drop by drop.

I looked at the clouds in the sky, the upper layer was white, the lower layer was black, they were running, and they heard that good people died and went to heaven, then my grandfather must be in heaven.

I thought, is my grandfather on the clouds, is he standing in the clouds looking at me, and if so, why doesn't he take me with him to the clouds?

I felt that my body was getting lighter and lighter, and I flew up, and when I got to the clouds, I saw a lot of children, they were white and fat, and they were cute and good-looking, and they told me to fly together, so I jumped and flew with them, and I asked them if they saw my grandfather, and they said that my grandfather had not yet come to heaven, and that the people who had just passed away needed to say goodbye to their loved ones, and they could not go up in a hundred days, so I was very disappointed and said, I have to find my grandfather.

I felt someone pat me on the face and call my name, I opened my eyes and saw that it was Uncle Dexuan from the same village, Uncle Dexuan was going to work in the field, passing by my house and seeing a person lying next to my grandfather's grave, he came to take a look, he saw that my face was flushed, as soon as he touched my forehead, his hands were hot, and he knew that I had a high fever.

Uncle Dexuan helped me home, and the family was busy entertaining the villagers and relatives who helped to eat, and no one noticed that I was not there at all.

I lay on the kang in the kitchen again, my grandmother surprisingly called a barefoot doctor, gave me a hanging needle, a few days later I was better, still doing the same job, but no longer spoke, the village legend said that I was almost called away by my grandfather, it was Uncle Dexuan found out in time, rescued back, the person came back, the soul did not come back, so I didn't speak.