Chapter 3 Talking to the Stone
"Bang!"
Unplugged the heavy door bolt and opened the door. In the hazy night, many people stood outside. There were Grandpa Jiao, Uncle Jiao, Teacher Li with glasses, as well as several uncles from the same village, and several strange men.
"Tianqi!"
My grandfather's weak voice came into my ears. Following the sound, I saw him sitting in a two-wheeled cart behind everyone. He was like eggplant with frost, very wilted. There was a thick layer of hay on the car board under him. In the night, the yellowish color was relatively obvious.
"Grandpa, what's wrong with you?"
At this time, my voice was already filled with a hint of crying, and my little heart seemed to be pulled by someone's hand. Because of my nervousness, my legs were trembling like a sieve.
Grandpa must not have any trouble!
Never not!
Without parents, my grandfather is my only relative in this world. No matter how bastard and heartless he is in the first year of junior high school, he has some things he should understand, but he is still confused and understands.
If something really happened to my grandfather, then my god would completely collapse and this family would be completely finished.
"Tianqi!"
Grandpa smiled with his big mouth, which had only a few scattered teeth, stretched out his big hand covered with hard calluses and grabbed my arm, comforting him, "Grandpa is nothing, don't give me a crying nose like a woman!"
As long as I can remember, my grandfather's words were the gentlest and weakest sentence he said. I can't believe that this is my grandfather who never got sick before and was as slapped as a body.
"Grandpa! Your legs..."
I was stunned for a moment and then I found that my grandfather's left leg was sitting on the cart, wrapped layer after layer with white gauze, and covered most of it with a small felt blanket.
"Grandpa..."
Tears couldn't stop flowing out.
...
Next, I was frightened and frantically, with the help of everyone, I carried my grandfather into the house and placed it on the kang.
"Tianqi, hey! Take good care of your grandpa..."
“…”
After staying for more than an hour, everyone repeatedly told me to take good care of my grandfather when they left and not let me go to the ground to move around recently. I was hurt for a hundred days, let alone an old man in his seventies?
Through their conversation, I also know how grandpa got into trouble.
Everything was because of the sudden rainstorm yesterday afternoon. My grandfather went to Shanxia Town to sharpen his knife. On the way back, he encountered heavy rain. All the people and bicycles were slid under a three-meter-high road cliff. It was not until this morning that several villagers from the next village who went to Shanxia Town to go to the market and took them to the town hospital.
He helps others repair farm tools and sharpen knives all year round. Many people in the surrounding areas know their grandfather. He is very popular. This time, even the money for the grandfather's leg injury treatment was paid by those people.
fortunately!
My grandfather's leg did not break directly, and it was said that it was just a slight fracture.
Even so, the doctors in the town hospital asked my grandfather to stay in the hospital for a few days, but my grandfather felt sorry for the money for the hospital and was worried that no one would care about me, so he was willing to continue living in the hospital.
What to do now?
My grandfather was injured in his leg and could not go out to make money or go to the field. What should I do?
He needs someone to take care of, and I can’t even cook a decent meal. What should I do?
Can I continue to go to school?
A heavy rain yesterday seemed to have turned my fate and my grandfather into a sharp turn.
...
I listened to my grandfather’s unconscious pain and moans in my sleep. This night, I tossed and turned and couldn’t fall asleep at all. For the first time, at the age of thirteen, I felt what helplessness and confusion meant.
As I grew up, I began to truly understand what "life" is.
This bitch life.
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the next day.
Everyone in the village knew about the incident when grandpa was in trouble. Almost every household had people visiting grandpa, and everyone brought some bacon, eggs, canned food, sugar, biscuits and other gifts.
Early in the morning, neighbors, Uncle Jiao and Aunt Jiao came to help make some porridge, and even rice was brought from their house.
Every person in the village who visited grandpa and came to help, their faces were very clear and clearly imprinted in their hearts. It was the first time that I, who was naughty, did not rush to others to grab something delicious.
"Grandpa, I don't want to go to school anymore!"
I was not interested in going to school at all, and this time my grandfather had an accident and when I was too young, I told this plan.
"What did you say??"
My grandfather, who was leaning against the wall and was at the bottom of the kang, had his originally drooping beard trembling, his eyes widened, staring at me tightly, and his power was very strong. His angry look, even if he was seriously injured, it would make me feel angry.
“…”
The atmosphere suddenly became very stiff, and I could clearly feel the anger between my grandfather's chest.
really!
He straightened his body, smashed the porcelain jar in his hand towards me, and shouted, "You bastard, what are you saying? Even if the sky falls, you will go to school for me. I don't need your care. As long as I'm still alive and not dead, you don't even think about dropping out of school."
“…”
I held back my tears and ran out of the house!
Keep running...
I ran to my mother's grave and couldn't help it anymore, and I burst into tears.
"Mom, I miss you!"
"That bastard left me and grandpa and no longer cared about us. What should I do now?"
"Grandpa was injured and couldn't go to the ground. I wanted to take care of him, but my grandpa insisted on letting me go to school and not letting me take care of him. Grandma, tell me what should I do?"
"I know my grandfather is determined to make me stand out and want me to go to school like other children, but I'm not a good school student at all!"
“…”
Even crying and saying, I told everything I could say in front of my mother's grave.
It's really helpless.
God!
Why do I have such a miserable life!!!
After saying that, I finished crying. I gradually fell silent. I looked up and looked at God, biting my lips hard.
Touch! Touch! Touch! Touch!
After a while, I kowtowed a few times and said solemnly to my mother's grave: "Mom, don't worry, no matter what, I will take good care of my grandpa!"
...
"Aunt, can you teach me how to cook?"
When I returned home, in the kitchen, I humbly asked Aunt Jiao how to cook. In the past, I only knew how to prepare noodles and potatoes. In order to better take care of my grandfather and maintain this home, I had to learn how to cook.
"This kid!"
Aunt Jiao, who was wrapped in a green turban and came to help clean the kitchen, smiled, rubbed her face on the back of my head and said, "No problem!"
...
From this day on, I began to learn to cook and take care of my grandfather.
But no matter what, my grandfather just disagrees with me dropping out of school. "Baby! You must study hard in school. I am still alive now and I can support you every day..."
His words made me feel sad.
I can't resist my grandfather's wish. From this day on, I will not go to school for three days and two days to dry the net. At least, I will bring all the books to school every day and will no longer lose everything.
"Tianqi has grown up!"
"This kid is finally sensible!"
“…”
Everyone in the village started saying, "I, a bastard, have a little bit of a crack in my head and have become sensible. I am no longer naughty, I no longer always go to other people's houses to watch TV at night, no longer...
In short, I try to use everything I play for housework. After all, I am a man who is a man. My grandfather can't work. Is there someone who still has to work in this family, right?
"Stone! When did you think that bastard will come back?"
Occasionally, I would take the time to look at the mountains on the big rocks in Kunlun Ruins outside the village. I still had a little hope in my heart that my father would come back suddenly and support this almost disastrous home.
‘Battleman’ is what I call my father, he is just a bastard.
The reason for the family situation is that even my best partner, Li Xuefeng, is a bit indescribable gap and estrangement with him, let alone other partners and people in the village.
"Stone……"
“…”
"Stone……"
Therefore, this mysterious stone in Kunlun Ruins became the best object of my confidence.
Strange to say.
It gives me the feeling that it is like a "family", listening to my heart silently. Every time it appears next to it, my heart is inexplicably fulfilled and down-to-earth.
Chapter completed!