Light Yu · I have a little sun

When Grandma Yin came back from a visit, she saw three monkeys sleeping under the tree. Thinking that she was fine, she moved a small stool to fan the three children.

When Jiang Can woke up in a daze, he saw the cattail fan above his head, rubbed his eyes, and murmured, "It turned out to be a fan. I thought it was a wind blowing, and it was going to rain."

"Hahahaha, Cancan is awake, grandma will get you something delicious." Grandma Yin looked at Yin Yao, whose eyelids were trembling and struggling to wake up, and said deliberately: "Let them both sleep, and I will give you one." People eat, so she can't eat both." After finishing speaking, he put down the cattail fan and walked happily to the small room.

There are only a few elderly families living in Hexi, and most of them are only accompanied by chickens, ducks and geese. It is rare for children to come to play. Grandma Yin is very happy, humming a little song while walking.

"Sister Yaoyao, Gu Yu, you two wake up, Grandma Yin is going to get some delicious food." When Jiang Can heard about the delicious food, she was still dazed and stared at it, and suddenly woke up. Watching Grandma Yin go away, she whispered Mimi shook Yin Yao and Gu Yu.

"Cancan, you are the first one to wake up." Yin Yao yawned and said in disbelief.

"Hehehe, just now Grandma Yin was fanning the wind so loudly, I thought it was going to rain heavily, so I woke up." Jiang Can fanned Gu Yu who was still lying down with his cattail fan.

Gu Yu was woken up by Jiang Can and Yin Yao. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Jiang Can fanning herself. She thought Jiang Can had been fanning herself for a long time, so she said to Jiang Can embarrassedly: "Cancan, are you tired? No need to fan, I'm not hot."

"Ah, Gu Yu, you're awake. I'm not tired. I just slapped you twice and you saw me. Get up quickly. Grandma Yin said she's going to bring us delicious food."

"I know grandma must have mixed tomatoes with sugar for us, at most there are rice cracker candies and rock sugar. Grandma always takes these things every time, and there are no new tricks. You will never get tired of eating Cancan." Yin Yao didn't care Speaking of.

"Of course I won't get tired of eating them. These are delicious. My mother also likes to buy rice cracker candies and rock candies, and she will buy them every time she goes to the street." Jiang Can's eyes are shining when he talks about eating, and he is super satisfied when he looks at it.

"It's not because you like to eat these, otherwise what would my little aunt buy?"

"No, no, no." Jiang Can shook his index finger and said solemnly: "I like to eat, but my mother always buys it, not because of me, but actually because she misses grandma."

"Why does my aunt think that your grandma wants to buy rice cracker candy? Because your grandma likes to eat it too? I heard grandma tell you about your grandma. She said she was a very frugal grandma. Tell us about it. Cancan should know who your grandma is. What does it look like?" Yin Yao pulled out a wild coriander flower, put it on the tip of her nose and smelled it, she really smelled a strong smell of coriander, and picked off the small white flowers one by one.

"Ah, let me think about it, my mother did tell me a lot about grandma." Jiang Can tilted her head and tried hard to think, what Chu Hongmei usually said when she mentioned grandma.

Jiang Can felt that every time his mother mentioned grandma to him, she seemed a little happy, but also a little sad. I couldn't see the expression on her face clearly, maybe her mother was thinking about her mother too.

"Cancan, do you know what your mother's mother's name is?" When Jiang Can was six years old, Chu Hongmei looked at the ignorant Jiang Can and wanted to introduce Jiang Can to her grandmother whom she had never met.

"I know, what's mom's mother's name? Mom's mother's name is grandma." Jiang Can recited the jingles she learned in kindergarten in a childish voice.

"That's right, does Cancan want to know what kind of person grandma is?" Chu Hongmei looked at Jiang Can, wondering if her mother had told her stories when she was Jiang Can's age Woolen cloth.

"Is grandma an old woman like Grandma Gu and Grandma Yin?" Jiang Can blinked her round almond eyes and asked Chu Hongmei seriously.

"Grandma is a little older than Grandma Gu and the others, with gray hair and a little hunchback." Chu Hongmei recalled her mother's appearance.

The mother in my impression always walks very slowly, and she still looks like an old man. Chu Hongmei looked at Jiang Can's bright eyes and said: "Her eyes are not very bright, and sometimes she can't recognize me. I can't hear clearly, sometimes I have to speak very loudly so that she can hear clearly."

"Ah? No wonder grandma hasn't visited Cancan before. She must be unable to see the way. Mom, let's go to grandma's house to see grandma. She is so pitiful." Jiang Can's tone sounded aggrieved, and his brows were also frowned. He looked very distressed.

"Grandma's house has collapsed. She hasn't come to see Cancan. It's not because she can't see the way clearly. She passed away a long time ago." Chu Hongmei touched Jiang Can's head. If her mother was still alive, she would definitely die. It hurts Cancan.

"What does death mean? Why did grandma's house collapse?" Jiang Can, who was still very young, tilted his head and looked at Chu Hongmei in confusion.

"To die is to die, just like the cat we raised last year that was drugged to death. The dead person or thing will go to heaven and become a star, guarding the living relatives."

Chu Hongmei recalled that Jiang Can once had a kitten that she liked very much, but it was poisoned to death by someone, and it was finally thrown in the wooden board factory of an uncle’s house in the village. When I heard the news, I cried for a long time, and until now I don’t want to keep a cat anymore.

"As for the collapse of the house, it is probably because once a house loses its owner, it will appear extraordinarily lonely, and eventually it will not be able to withstand the time, and it will disappear into the world."

"Does mom know which star grandma became? Will grandma meet Xiaobai? Will Xiaobai tell grandma something about us?"

"We don't need to tell which star is grandma, as long as we know that one of the stars is grandma, my mother will not feel afraid, as if all the stars in the sky are with me."

"Mom, do you secretly miss grandma? When I was in kindergarten, Cancan secretly missed you."

"Thank you Cancan. Mom used to miss grandma very much, but now that Cancan is with me every day, I don't seem to think so much. Cancan, let's eat rice cracker candies together."

Jiang Can paused for a while and said to Yin Yao, "So there is a star in the sky that is grandma."

"Cancan, that's just my little aunt's expectation. In fact, after a person dies, there is nothing left. They are buried in the ground and not in the sky." Yin Yao ruthlessly exposed the boring idea that people will become stars after death. It's a trick, it's just that the living are deceiving themselves.

"Yaoyao, what is buried is only the ashes, but the living people's memory of the dead will not disappear. The saying that the dead will become stars is just like my four-leaf clover bracelet. It is our beauty. Hope, this also shows that even death cannot take away loved ones from our hearts. As long as we miss each other, they will still live in our hearts."

Although what Yin Yao said was true, but seeing Jiang Can's deeply shocked appearance, Gu Yu couldn't help but defend Jiang Can a few words.

"Gu Yu, you are amazing. What you say is as profound as my mother's. This is what my mother told me, but I can't even explain it." Jiang Can looked at Gu Yu with bright eyes. Jiang Can's heart is as tall as Chu Hongmei's, and he is the object of his admiration.

"That's it, then Cancan, go on and say, why does my little aunt eat rice cracker candies when she misses your grandma?"

"In my mother's story, the grandma who hasn't found her mother seems to be a lonely person forever. It seems that only the village party secretary will send some things like rice, flour, grain and oil to grandma during the holidays all year round. At that time, grandma seemed to have integrated into the small house, either in a daze in the house, or sleeping on the wall outside the house in a daze." In Jiang Can's cognition, it was very difficult for him to understand that no one spoke all day long, Days when no one is playing.

"Perhaps it is because of this that Cancan's grandmother chose to pick up Cancan's mother even though her life depended on subsidies." Gu Yu felt that he had experienced the kind of innocence when his leg just fell. Goals, no expectations, only the feeling that time is slowly passing by yourself.

"Is it because you are too lonely? Why doesn't Grandma Cancan go fishing for crayfish? Grandma Cancan also lives in Hexi." Yin Yao asked doubtfully. If she lived here, she would not have to study and do homework every day. Live happily every day.

"Probably because the exhaustion accumulated over the years will polish a person's enthusiasm for living. At this time, Grandma Cancan met Aunt Chu, and she was a person like herself who could only lean against the wall to look at fallen leaves, running water, and rotten wood. It's different, a brand new life like the buds of early spring, like the rising sun. That's why she can't help but get closer." Gu Yu looked at Jiang Can's silly look, and she was the same, and was attracted by this brilliant Attracted by the sun?

"Is that the rice cake candy in the rice flour, grain and oil given by the village party secretary?" Yin Yao asked curiously.

"It didn't exist at the beginning, rice cracker candy and rock candy, that came later."

"It is estimated that the secretary of your village saw that your grandma had a child, so he took some food that the child likes to eat." Gu Yu thought that he might have paid for it out of his own pocket, otherwise the supplies for the widowed elderly would only be rice, flour, grain and oil. Bar.

"Maybe, my mother said that my grandma's family is very poor, and it's not easy to rely on the relief from the village to support myself. If there is one more her, it will be even more difficult to eat, so my grandma will also take my mother to pick up rice ears. Turn over the sweet potatoes in the old ground."

"Why doesn't your grandma farm the land herself? She also goes to other people's land to pick up what others don't want?" Yin Yao thinks that she should support herself.

"My mother said that because my grandma escaped from the famine, she finally settled in our Caodeng Village, so my grandma didn't have her own field. But later, my mother was bullied by her classmates, saying that she was a scavenger, so my grandma took the land in front of the house. The land is used to grow food."

"Then this should be enough for self-sufficiency. Have you started buying rice cracker candy for my aunt?" Yin Yao was preoccupied with her own problems, but she still didn't understand why she would eat rice cracker candy when she missed someone.

"No, my mother said that at this time, I need money to study by myself. Although the school exempts part of it, it is still a big expense for grandma."

"Then why do you still need to study? My mother said that she didn't read a book when she was a child, and she went to the second grade. She said that she really couldn't read it. Reading is too difficult. Many people at her age don't read. "Yin Yao asked puzzledly, since she couldn't even afford to eat, why should she waste money on studying?"

"Mom said it was grandma's insistence. Grandma always said that she picked up my mother, so she didn't let her live a good life, so she can't be in debt in studying, just like now my mother always says that I should put my study first. Like one, my mother said that only reading can change a person's horizons and expand their thinking. These are the principles my grandmother taught her."

"Could this be the reason why my mother is different from my little aunt?" Yin Yao couldn't help thinking.

"My mother said that until she went out to work, she and her grandma couldn't afford rice cake candies. They were still given by the village party secretary. Grandma was always reluctant to eat them. Since she was a child, both rice cake candy and rock sugar had entered her stomach. The last time Mom took the rice krispies from grandma when grandma passed away."

"Did your grandma not be willing to eat in the end?"

"Well, my mother said that my grandma died in a cold winter. Because of long-term malnutrition and old age, she didn't survive. When my mother came back from working outside, my grandma couldn't stand it anymore. In the end, she was holding some broken pieces The ticket was given to my mother, it is said that the harvest in the field in front of the door was sold for some money in the last year, after explaining a few words to my mother, I pointed to the small basket by the bedside and handed it to my mother, and then I closed my eyes in relief."

"Are there rice crackers in the basket?"

"Well, my mother said that the rock sugar has melted and became sticky, and those rice flower candies have become soft because they have been harvested for too long, neither hard nor brittle. Mom ate a piece and said that it was sweet in my impression. The rice cracker candy tasted salty."

"It's because Auntie Chu cried. The person who depended on each other still left her the most delicious food and the few money he thought in the end." Gu Yu always believes that maternal love is the purest emotion in the world. Return without reservation. Although there are many selfish mothers, there are always good and bad in everything. This cannot offset the greatness of maternal love in the world.

"My mother often said that she has a bad habit now, that is, she always spends a lot of money on food, and she always likes to buy rice cracker candies and rock candies, because these things were the most expensive and delicious things in her childhood cognition , can only be eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese New Year, so now that I have the ability, I always want to buy more, which will make her feel very satisfied."

"Because I didn't get satisfied when I was young, so when I grow up, I will always have a preference for those tastes. When I eat these things, I can think of the mother who loves me. Those tastes can bring me back to those poverty-stricken people. The era surrounded by pure love." Jiang Can remembered the sparkle in his mother's eyes when she said these words.

Even if the brain forgets it, the taste still remembers it, just like someone who always likes to talk about their hometown and relatives.

"Hey! The little ones are awake, come and taste the tomatoes mixed with grandma, and this rice flower candy, which I just bought on the street yesterday. This small rock candy is sweet, much better than the previous big rock candy It's gone." Grandma Yin held the bamboo basket in one hand and freshly mixed tomatoes in the other, and greeted the three little lazy cats who had just woken up with a smile.

"Wow, Sister Yaoyao guessed it right. Sister Yaoyao is amazing." Jiang Can looked at Yin Yao in amazement.

"Hahahaha, after we finish eating, these tastes will be remembered by our tongues, and when we eat them next time, we will think of this afternoon." Yin Yao took a piece of rice flower candy, took a bite, and said Crispy, sweet and delicious.

"Yes, this will become a unique taste, representing this period of memory. When I eat it next time, I will definitely think of you. That's why Cancan said that although her mother didn't say she missed grandma, she knew her own Mom misses grandma."

"Gu Yu, open your mouth." Jiang Can took a bowl of tomatoes mixed with sugar, and stuffed a piece into Gu Yu's mouth, "How about it, is it delicious?"

Gu Yu nodded quickly, and gave Jiang Can a thumbs up. The sweet and sour feeling spread in his mouth, and a sense of happiness arose spontaneously.Maybe when I eat tomatoes mixed with sugar in the future, I will think of the one that Jiang Can stuffed, and even when I eat something sour and sweet, I will think of Jiang Can.