Grandma lives in a small remote village at the foot of the mountain, where the legendary empty-nest old man gathers. Except for a lame uncle who takes care of her grandmother, there are no young adults in the village. Uncle also suffered an accident because he went out to work when he was young, fell from a height, broke a leg, and saved his life.
Not long ago, I received a call from my mother, saying that my grandmother had passed away and told me to go back to visit her. When I was in elementary school, I often lived with my grandmother. I grew up with my grandmother since I was a child, but I haven’t been there a few times since I was in college.
Fly to the airport of the provincial capital, to the train road city, and then lead a long-distance bus to the town where my grandmother is, and have to climb a mountain to see my grandmother’s house. But it was already afternoon when I arrived in the town. I had a good idea. If I can get to the village in the evening, whoever thinks that the heavens are not beautiful, suddenly it rains halfway up the mountain, so I found a tree hole to shelter from the rain. It was already evening after the rain stopped.
I went up the mountain with my backpack on my back. I saw people shaking in the weeds on the side of the road. I shouted, “Who? Who is there?” Then I saw one A boy with a childish face in a green vest.
“Did you live in this mountain then?”
The boy nodded.
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The boy’s house is quite messy, it looks like no one has lived for a long time, but I frowned to cover my nose I held back again, “Where are the others in your family?”
“I live here with my grandma, but my grandma passed away last year, so I live here alone.”
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I covered my belly and said, “Is there anything to eat? I am very hungry.” Then I took out a hundred yuan and said, “I can pay you, can I stay here for one night? “
The boy took the money and shook his head, “I will get you food, but you can’t live here.”
I mean Looking at the pitch black night outside, “It’s already so late, tell me how to go.”
The boy walked into the back room and took out a plate from the back room with some snacks inside. .
“Thank you!” As I said, I took a piece from the inside and ate it. When I was hungry, I ate the chaff as sweet as honey, and finished one in two or three bites.
The boy watched quietly, and said stiffly: “You have to go quickly after you eat. You can’t live here.”
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I ignored him, took the plate in his hand, “Is there any water?” Then I saw him go looking for water, thinking about how to convince him.
The boy came over with a half scoop of water. I took a few sips and felt a bit of ice teeth.He put it aside and looked around, “So, where am I sleeping?”
The boy shook his head, and still said dumbly, “No, you can’t live here.”
I put the two tables in the outhouse together, and lay on them, “It’s okay, I can do it all night, it won’t cause you trouble.”
The boy looked helpless, said nothing, and walked into the back room. After a while, he took a quilt out of it and put it on the table and said, “It’s cold on the mountain at night, you cover it. “
I laughed and looked at him from behind and said: “Thank you!”
I wrapped the quilt tightly, warm, Then I fell asleep deeply. In the middle of the night, I suddenly felt some abdominal pain. It may be because of an expired snack, or it may be because of the scoop of cold water that I started to fall asleep.
Feeling like there is a light shaking in the dimness, I opened my eyes and saw the boy standing in front of me holding a candle. I was taken aback and I sat up suddenly, “What are you doing?”
The boy put the candle on the table, “I can’t sleep, come out and see you.”< br>
I also sat cross-legged on the table and patted the seat next to me, “You sit here, I can’t sleep, let’s chat.”
The boy sat down obediently, lowered his head and fiddled with his fingers, looking a little shy.
“How old are you this year?” I asked.
“Eleven.” The boy said.
“Not at school yet?” I asked.
“My family is poor. I used to have my grandmother for me to go to school, but now that my grandmother is dead, I won’t go to school.” The boy replied.
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“Then how do you live?” I became curious, but in my heart I thought of my grandmother, who took care of me when I was young.
“There is a temple on the mountain. There will be incense sticks during festivals. If you are hungry, you can steal some from somewhere. If you are thirsty, you can drink mountain spring water.”
Hearing this, I felt that the boy was a little pitiful, “You follow me down the mountain, I will help you go to school.”
The boy shook his head unexpectedly, “No, I want to stay with my grandma, otherwise He will be lonely.”
“But you—” I want to say that my grandmother is dead, but I can’t bear to say it halfway through.
“Then what do you plan to do in the future?” I asked instead.
The boy shook his head and did not speak. These empty-nest elderly and left-behind children have become a common phenomenon with the development of society. I think I also grew up with my grandmother in the mountain village, and I have also experienced this boy not bad. But againThinking of having not come to see grandma for so many years, now that grandma has passed away and came back, I feel uncomfortable in my heart.
Suddenly heard two roosters shouting outside the door, and the boy and I looked out the window at the same time. The boy said: “You should go now, I also want to see grandma.”
I turned around and looked at him, “Look at Grandma? Where to go?”
“Back to the deserted grave.” The boy said.
I nodded, “I’m going to see my grandma too.”
The mountain road was still wet when I went out, and I followed the long narrow path. When we went down the mountain, the sun was already very bright.
My uncle was cleaning outside the courtyard, and when he saw me from a distance, he shouted a few times inside. My parents walked out and shouted: “Why are you here now?”
I stepped up and ran over, “I want to go to the toilet first.”
From the side, Uncle sat at the door, basking in the sun and smoking a cigarette , Saw me and asked: “This point shouldn’t be here. Why should you come in the afternoon? Is it possible that you spend the night on the mountain?”
I nodded and saw my uncle look worried “There is a family on the mountain, I stayed there all night.”
Uncle stood up swayingly, “There is no one on the mountain. Which family do you live in?”
I was very surprised by my uncle’s expression, “It’s an adobe house, and there lives a little boy with dark skin and a green vest.”
“You mean Xiao Di?”
I nodded, but my uncle shook his head, “Impossible. Last year, his grandmother died of illness on the mountain, and the body was only found in half a month. , Xiao Di died in the arms of grandma.”
My brain quickly recalled what happened last night, and suddenly I felt another rolling in my stomach, “(*@ο@*) Wow~” A puddle of filth was highlighted, and some white worms crawled around inside. (End)