Chapter 24 The Final
A month passed quickly. After finishing the millet, drying the cabinet, and having a meal of fresh rice.
That day, it happened to be the weekend. After breakfast, Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin were sent to his grandfather's house to play by Chen's mother. Xiaoxi knew that the time was up.
Sure enough, I didn’t go home for lunch, but I ate it at my grandfather’s house. I haven’t seen Dad Chen and Mom Chen in the morning. After lunch, it’s time to go home for a nap. Grandpa Chen didn’t know how to keep them, so he asked them to go back.
Xiaoxi's house had to go into the bedroom, and he had to go around the front door, but now the front door was locked from outside. Chen Yubin patted the door and asked his parents to open the door, but it was quiet and there was no sound at all. He couldn't help but feel anxious and started smashing the door, shouting, "Mom, open the door, Dad, open the door."
Xiaoxi knew that his parents had left and went to Guangdong to work.
At this time, the second master who was writing a memorizing a scribble in the old yard couldn't help but speak, "Xiaoxi, Binbin, stop calling, your parents are gone, you are working."
That's all. When Chen Yubin heard that his parents didn't want him anymore, he started crying "Wow" and shouted, "You're lying, you're lying."
Xiaoxi knew that they would be back next year. But even so, she thought that she would not see her mother this year, no one would pick her up and go to school, no one would hug her and sleep with her. She listened to her brother's miserable crying in her ears, and couldn't help but burst into tears.
It was so pitiful that the second master persuaded him: "Xiaoxi, Binbin, don't cry, you both will be back soon."
"What you said was fake. They didn't leave, they didn't leave."
At this time, grandpa and mother-in-law also heard the cry of the siblings, so they came over and pulled one of them, "Xiaoxi, Binbin, go back with grandpa, your parents go to work and earn money, come back to buy you candy."
"Wuwuwuwuwuwuwu...I don't want to buy candy anymore. I want my mother, ahhh..."
"Your mother will be back in two days." Grandpa felt that the child was too forgot about sex, so he deceived him.
"No, I want my mother." Chen Yubin didn't listen to the explanation at all, broke away from his grandfather's hand and slapped the door desperately, making Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen feel very distressed.
Grandma Chen took Xiaoxi's hand and frowned and said, "Xiaoxi, please advise your brother not to cry, your voice is hoarse, ah, obedient."
But Xiaoxi was crying so sadly that he didn't listen to his mother-in-law's words.
Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen looked at each other and couldn't persuade them. Grandpa Chen said, "Let's go back first. They will come back when they are tired of crying later." After that, he stood up, walked towards the back door with his hands hanging down his head.
Grandma Chen had no choice but to look at the siblings helplessly, and had to go back with Grandpa Chen.
"Binbin, go back with your grandpas. How far has your father and the others gone by now? Don't cry."
Hearing the second master's voice, Chen Yubin seemed to have found a vent, "You fart, my mother didn't leave, you are a liar." He was sad and didn't realize that he was scolding someone, but he was an elder.
The same was true in my previous life. Xiaoxi remembered that he and his younger brother cried at that time so shockingly. Because the second master persuaded them, they didn't know who started first. Maybe they blamed his mother for leaving. They caught the second master and scolded him. They cried and scolded him until the end they really had no strength and didn't know how they got back to their grandfather's house.
At the end of the crying, Chen Yubin was really weak and had no strength to curse. He could only hear sobs. Seeing that he was almost over, Xiaoxi rushed to help him and sobbed, "Brother, let's go back to grandpa's house. We have been making trouble for so long. Mom and the others must have left. They won't come back if you cry."
Chen Yubin raised his tears and stared at Xiaoxi and said sadly: "Sister, sister...mom... she... doesn't want us anymore."
Xiaoxi touched his head and comforted her: "No, mom doesn't want us. She is going to make money and earn the tuition for us to go to school next year. She will come back when she enters the first grade next year."
"But...but, by next year... before the first grade... there will be a long time...ah."
"It's not long before you believe in your sister. You just count the day after spending like this, very quickly. Don't you think that day passes quickly every day, and it's not enough to play."
"Well...well, very soon." Chen Yubin finally smiled.
"Then let's go to Grandpa's house and stop crying."
"Um... um." Chen Yubin wiped the tears from his face, held the hand that his sister reached out, and the siblings went back to his grandfather's house.
"Grandpa, we are back." Thinking of the crying just now, Xiaoxi was no longer a child, and his ears were red.
"It's right to come back." Grandma Chen got up from the stove door, scooped hot water from the pot and put some cold water into the washbasin, explored it, and said to the siblings: "Come and wash your face, like a little cat."
Looking at the worried eyes of grandpa and mother-in-law's helpless and considerate behavior, Xiaoxi couldn't help but lower her head with some guilt and self-respect.
Grandpa Chen looked at Xiaoxi with something wrong. He knew that she was premature and thought too much, so he walked up, touched her head, and said gently: "Don't think about anything else, hurry up and wash your face and take your brother to sleep for a while."
Xiaoxi raised his head, blinked the tears that were filled with tears in his eyes, and nodded with a smile, "Yes."
After crying, the siblings fell asleep as soon as they lay on the bed.
After a while, Grandpa Chen was still worried, so he got up and went to the bedroom to see the two brothers. Xiaoxi was sleeping smoothly, but Chen Yubin was still sobbing in his dream. He was very pitiful. Grandpa Chen touched his back, then pulled the corner of the quilt for the two brothers and went out.
After returning to the kitchen, I thought for a while and said to Grandma Chen: "Old woman, I thought about taking a pig's leg down, washing and stewing it, and sending his second master to apologize and apologize, and also replenishing the two children."
"Okay, it's time to apologize to others. People can't be scolded by your children for nothing. There is also Xiaoxi and the others who have cried for so long today, which is very harmful to their vitality. It's time to replenish them."
"Then you will take it down and wash it and cook it quickly. When the two children wake up, it will be almost done."
"Well, I'll go now." After saying that, I got up and patted the dust on the apron that was surrounded by my waist, and went upstairs to get the meat.
Chen Yubin was awakened by the smell of meat. He swallowed his saliva and shook his sister next to him and said, "Sister, sister, I'm up. Grandpa's house seems to be stewed with meat, get up quickly."
"Well..." Xiaoxi opened his heavy eyelids, and his eyes were still a little painful. Then he saw Chen Yubin kneeling beside him with red eyes and asked anxiously: "Binbin, what's wrong with you?"
Chen Yubin leaned forward and smiled and said, "Sister, I smelled the meat stewed at grandpa."
Xiaoxi sucked hard with his nose, and there was a faint smell of meat. He asked curiously: "Then why are your eyes so red, like a little rabbit."
"Is that so? I don't know, it seems to be a little painful." As he said that, he rubbed it with his hands. Xiaoxi then remembered that Chen Yubin's eyes were red and swollen, which was the reason for crying just now. Before he could stop him, he heard, "Ah, it hurts."
"You," Xiaoxi nodded his forehead with a funny look, "Stop moving around anymore, I'll give you cold water to Bingbing later."
"Well, my sister and mother are really leaving? When will you come back?" As she said that, she still had a sagging mouth, as if she was about to cry again.
"Yeah, very soon." He hurriedly lifted the quilt and said, "Get up quickly, I'll wash your face, and see if my mother-in-law and the others have stewed the meat."
"Oh..." Hearing that there was meat to eat, Chen Yubin hurriedly got up from the bed, and there was no mood to be sad.
"Grandpa, mother-in-law."
"Yeah, I'm up." Grandpa Chen put down the hookah in his hand.
"Well, Binbin's eyes hurt a little, I want to get some cold water to ice him." The water I just got back from the well was a little cold, and the cold compress was OK.
"Wait, I'll do it, you can't handle it." After that, Grandpa Chen got up from the stool, took the washbasin and scooped half a basin of water for Chen Yubin, then put the washbasin and soaked it for a while, twisted it half dry, and applied it to Chen Yubin on his eyes. In this way, the swelling and pain in his eyes were reduced by half after three to four times.
Listening to the sound of "gurugu" cooking in the pot, Xiaoxi asked curiously: "Mother-in-law, what are you doing?" This is just a busy farming festival during the Chinese New Year and there is no happy event, so why are you stewing meat?
Grandma Chen used fire tongs to make the firewood in the pot hole, and then replied with a smile: "Your grandpa said, I will make up for you and satisfy his cravings by the way, hahaha..."
"Hehehe..." Although Chen Yubin covered his mouth, the laughter was not small at all, and he asked curiously: "Grandpa, are you greedy for meat too?"
Grandpa Chen looked at Chen Yubin's curious look and couldn't help but glar at Grandma Chen. This old woman made an excuse to joke with herself, why did she be greedy for her? That's right.
Grandma Chen saw that her wife was indescribable and she was very funny. It was really so good that she glared at her. Could it be that she was used to apologize for them? As she thought about it, she rolled her eyes at Grandpa Chen twice.
Seeing her like this, Grandpa Chen couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Xiaoxi looked at her grandfather and mother-in-law, and couldn't help but wonder, saying that it was possible to satisfy her cravings for Binbin and herself, but how could it be possible to satisfy her cravings? But why? It's so strange, why did she lie to herself and her brother?
Grandma Chen sat in front of the stove door, and the three of them sat around the dining table, which was lively, talking and laughing, changing the afternoon sluggishness and sadness.
Seeing that the time was almost over, Grandma Chen opened the lid of the pot, flipped it in the pot with a spoon twice, and said to the streams: "Okay, it's time to eat. The stream brings the bowls, and I'll scoop a bowl to dry first." After that, when the stream went to get the bowls and chopsticks, the firewood in the pot hole was removed, leaving only the charcoal.
After bringing the four bowls of two, two and small to the dinner table, Xiaoxi saw his grandfather take out another big bowl, and he leaned forward to take a look. He scooped up half a bowl of pork leg meat, plus some dried beans, winter melon and kelp, and a large sea bowl of scoops. He had already scooped enough people, so why did grandfather scoop again?
"Grandpa, why did you scooped another bowl?"
Chapter completed!