Author: Fried Chicken Family Bucket

"Gudong, Gudong."

Where is this place, I can't breathe, I can't move my hands and feet, it's so uncomfortable.

Shouts, footsteps, and quarrels were accompanied by the sound of falling water.

Xu An clearly felt someone pulling his arm. The darkness in front of him gradually dissipated and the light became brighter and brighter.

The man who was kneeling on both sides of Xu An's body and doing heart compressions was suddenly knocked over by a huge force underneath him. Before he could react, he heard the cheers of the crowd around him.

"Wake up, wake up, be saved, and be alive."

After a period of vomiting that was so violent that it seemed like he was about to vomit out his heart and lungs, Xu An slowly focused his attention and found that his right hand was holding a fish hard, a fish that was so bloody that it was hard to tell that it was a fish.

The moment he saw this fish, Xu An subconsciously carried it into his arms. His subconscious told him that this fish was very important to him.

This strange movement startled the people around him, and several people who originally wanted to help him up slowly returned to the crowd.

An old woman hesitated and shouted to Xu An: "Xu family boy, Xu family boy?"

Xu An raised his head and looked at the speaker. The old woman was about seventy years old. Her hair was neatly trimmed with silver hair. She had a kind smile on her face. She was holding clothes full of foam in her hands. She should have been washing clothes just now.

Isn't this the third grandmother in the village? But didn't she pass away three years ago? How come she appears here alive and there is nothing strange about the people around her.

A severe headache struck, and large tracts of memories appeared in Xu An's mind.

Xu An remembered when the scene in front of him happened.

This is fifteen years ago. My grandma fell down the stairs and broke her right leg. After treatment in the hospital, she returned home to recuperate. In order to supplement her nutrition, I went to the river to catch fish, but I suffered from foot cramps and drowned, and was rescued. scene.

Another image appeared in Xu An's mind at the same time. He was standing on the rocks at the seaside. The waves were rolling up one after another. A huge wave swept him into the sea while he was waiting for rescue.

Xu An looked at his body. He was wearing a fat, worn-out striped T-shirt with patches. Under his coarse shorts were two legs that looked like bamboo poles, with two vegetable leaves hanging on his feet.

This was his favorite outfit when he went out to work. It wasn't until the end of the summer vacation of his senior year in high school that he got caught on a branch while chopping firewood and tore into several pieces. He couldn't even sew them together, so he gave up on this outfit. Favorite clothes.

Is this back to the summer vacation after the college entrance examination fifteen years ago?

"Buddha said there are too many love in one life; love and hate drag back and forth, frowning and frowning."

The cell phone rang suddenly, and the man took it out of his pocket. Xu An saw the date on the screen, June 13, 2012.

June 13, 2012!

At this time, the younger brothers and sisters have not yet been sent to my sister-in-law’s house!

Xu An jumped up, thanked the enthusiastic villagers around him, and ran home.

Pushing open the courtyard door of his home, Xu An saw his younger brother and sister washing vegetable leaves in the courtyard, and Xu An hugged the two of them into his arms.

The younger brother's name is Xu Kang, and the younger sister's name is Xu Le. They are a pair of twins. On June 15, they were sent to the home of my sister-in-law who had been married for seven years and had no children. They were added to the sister-in-law's household registration, and they became Xu from brother to sister. Ann's cousin.

"Brother, you are making me feel so uncomfortable." The two of them pushed Xu An hard, trying to push him away, but they were small and weak, and Xu An could not move at all.

Hearing this, Xu An woke up from his memories, quickly let go of his hand, and squeezed their delicate faces fiercely.

Xu Le got out of Xu An's arms and looked behind Xu An. He didn't see the familiar fish basket. He asked with some disappointment: "Brother, where is the fish? Didn't brother go to catch the fish? I didn't catch it."

Fish?"

Xu An rubbed Xu Le's head, looked at the two people's sallow faces, and said with an apologetic look: "Brother didn't catch any fish, so I won't eat fish today, but meat, okay?"

Hearing Xu An's words, the two little men looked in disbelief and looked at Xu An with wide eyes: "Brother, do you really eat meat? Is it the meat from pigs?"

Xu An looked at the expectant eyes of the two people, smiled and tapped their noses, and said with certainty: "Yes, we will eat the meat from the pigs today."

"Woohoo, eat meat, eat meat, eat pork, pork!"

The two of them excitedly circled around Xu An, talking about Rourou as they ran.

In 2012, most families lived a life of having meat every meal. But in the Xu family, they could only have the luxury of having a small meal of meat during the New Year.

Xu's mother died of a massive hemorrhage when giving birth to Xu Kang and Xu Le. Xu's father was working on a construction site. In order to make more money, he took the initiative to do some more dangerous jobs. He slipped and fell from a building and died. After several arguments, he was asked to pay compensation.

30,000 yuan.

Since then, only Grandma Xu is left in the Xu family's immediate family. Fortunately, Grandma Xu is in good health and has grown a garden full of vegetables. She picks them up and sells them in the market every day. She can earn some living expenses and live a decent life.

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But Grandma Xu broke her leg while repairing the house a week ago. The money for the treatment came from the 30,000 yuan compensation, and she spent more than 10,000 yuan, which made the already poor family even worse.

"Anzi, is Anzi back?"

Grandma Xu seemed to hear the movement coming from outside the house, and the weak voice came outside through the window.

He stopped the two people playing around, locked the courtyard door, and Xu An walked into the house.

When you step into the living room, you will see a long table with three red plastic incense burners placed on it. Three black and white photos are hung on the wall above the incense burners.

From left to right are Grandpa Xu, Dad Xu and Mom Xu.

There is a heavy solid wood square table against the wall on the left side of the living room. The red paint on the table is mottled, revealing the original color of the wood.

There was a plate of pickles placed on the square table. Next to the pickles were two shriveled apples, covered with a red fly-proof cover.

Turn left and you will find grandma's room. In the center of the empty room is a simple wooden bed made of stools and wooden boards of different lengths.

A shriveled bamboo was tied to the four corners of the wooden bed, and a yellowish mosquito net was hung.

There are several dark jars stacked in the corner of the room, tightly covered with wooden boards. These are pickle jars that have been passed down to the Xu family for forty or fifty years.

Grandma Xu was half leaning against the wall, covered with a thin navy blue quilt, and her hair was tied messily with silver threads. Seeing Xu An come in, she asked with concern: "Anzi, what are you doing this morning?"

Where did you go when you left?"

Suddenly hearing her grandma's concern, Xu An's nose became sore and tears rolled down her cheeks. It took a long time to suppress the emotion, and she pretended to be normal and said: "There are many vegetables in the field that will grow old if you don't pick them. I'll go pick them early in the morning."

I picked the vegetables and sold them in the market."

Grandma Xu looked at Xu An's performance and knew that he was not telling the truth. But now that her legs and feet were weak and she couldn't even get out of bed, Xu An didn't want to tell herself and there was nothing she could do, so she didn't ask further.

Changed the topic.

"We picked all those vegetables, how much did we buy?"

Xu An took out a handful of wet banknotes from his pocket, counted them quickly and found a total of fifty-one and fifty cents, and started making up nonsense based on this total.

"I picked five kilograms of green beans for three yuan and a half a kilogram; I picked four bitter melons for a total of three kilograms and three yuan for a kilogram; I picked nearly ten kilograms of tomatoes for two yuan and a half and sold them for a total of fifty-one and fifty cents."

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Grandma Xu looked at the wet banknotes in Xu An's hand and did not answer. She was so quiet that Xu An felt a little uncomfortable.

"It will take a long time for my leg to heal. Just keep the money from selling vegetables and use it whenever you need money."

After saying that, Grandma Xu pulled up the quilt and lay down on her side, with her back to Xu An.

Xu An smoothed the creases on the banknotes, folded them one by one and put them back in his pocket, then looked back at the door.

Only then did Xu An realize that he was wet from top to bottom, leaving wet footprints wherever he walked.
Chapter completed!