Chapter 14 Lopsided

One boring afternoon, An An said, Mom, tell me the story of my childhood! Mom said, well, when you were a baby, breastfeeding was like a war. Two small slaps, holding on to mother’s breasts, sucked milk desperately, as if the whole person was hanging on the breasts, afraid that if you let go, you would die. Fell into the sea.In less than a minute, the milk was sucked up, and then I went to grab another milk... At that time, you were glued to your mother's chest all day long. and after? Later, you will be able to crawl, whichever room your mother is in, you will crawl to that room, like a puppy.You cry as soon as your mother is out of your sight.

and after? Afterwards, you'd be gone, and every day you'd let Mommy hold hands, walk out the front door, across the street, and play with Freddy across the way. The doorbell rang, and Hua Fei, who was playing with cars in the corner, rushed towards the door and yelled, "Feifei go away, Feifei go away!" Six-year-old Freddy stood at the door: "An'an, come quickly, my mother found an ant nest in the yard..." "Ants? Oh?" ​​Fei Feiyuan opened his eyes. Freddy and Ann had already rushed into the street.Both were barefoot.My mother didn't have time to say "Look left and right before crossing the street", and Feifei, who was nearly three years old, also rushed to the side of the road.Mom shouted from behind: "Stop!"

Feifei slammed on the brakes on the curb. "Is there a car?" Moffy turned his head to the left and then to the right. "No." "run!" A little ball with curly hair bounced across the street. Mom went into the kitchen.She is going to bake a banana cake today.The green leaves of the chestnut tree scraped the window lightly, and my mother was a little surprised: Has this little tree grown so tall?When I first moved here, it was lower than the windows!The warm sunlight shines through the glass, reflecting the shaking leaves on the table.Three bananas, two cups of flour, one egg—

Later, An An knew how to cross the street by herself.This street is a one-way street, there are not many cars, and a big bus puffs by every half hour.Feifei loves the sound of that bus.Once, my mother was reading the newspaper and drinking coffee in the kitchen, listening to the sound of the bus approaching from far away, and then stopped, just outside the kitchen.Mother took a sip of coffee, read a line of writing, suddenly jumped up, turned a few turns, and rushed out the door. Sure enough, Feifei, one and a half years old, was not as tall as a dog, standing in the middle of the street, blocking the road. On the bus, he raised his face and sucked his baby bottle, looking at the driver who was sitting tall.

Later, probably a few days after An An left the kindergarten, he and Freddy appeared in front of his mother side by side: "Mom, can we go to the playground by ourselves?" Mom froze.The playground with sand piles and slides is only 400 meters away from home, right?However, the child goes by himself?All kinds of terrible plans emerge in the mother's mind: perverted men will rape little boys and girls, kill and abandon corpses; desperadoes will kidnap children and tear up votes; drag them all out; the hornets in summer can sting and kill people... "Mom, can I?" A little impatient, the two brothers looked at this half-hearted woman.

Mom left the desk and knelt in front of An An, so that the two of them could look at each other.The mother held the child's hand and said slowly: "You know you can only use the sidewalk in the back?" Ann nodded. "You know you can't go anywhere with strangers?" "I know." The voice was crunchy, "I won't go if he has candy." "What if," said Mom, "what if he said he was going to take you to see the rabbits?" The little boy shook his head: "Not going either." The mother stood up and touched the child's head: "Okay, you go!"

The two of them imitated the grass-roots Fanren, and chased away with a howl. From then on, An An was like a sailor wandering all over the world, reporting his adventures as soon as he returned home: there was a prairie beside the game field, and there were groundhogs buried in the grass.An unknown dead tree on the grassland, the branches are always full of crows, screaming "quack" to the sky.In the bushes there was a hare, with big ears, but such a short tail, and a fat body, as big as a nine-pound cat.The tree next to the swing is full of green peas, and the peas are still attached with a thin piece like a dragonfly's wing. You throw the bean into the sky, and when it falls, the wings will keep spinning. Like a landing helicopter, and like a butterfly—

"Mom," An An was already fully dressed and standing in front of her mother's bed early in the morning, "I want to go to kindergarten." Mom chuckled, "You have already graduated, and you still go to kindergarten? In one month, you will go to elementary school." An'an twisted away, determined to go. The unkempt mother was wearing pajamas, sitting on the edge of the bed, holding her chin and looking at her son, thinking: Oh my God!This guy doesn't know what "graduation" is!But, looking back, how could he understand? Twenty minutes later, the mother and son arrived at the gate of the kindergarten.An An's eyes sparkled with excitement.In this place, there are his favorite friends, familiar toys, corners, smells...

Pushing open the door, An An stopped.The little carrot head that was humming stopped what it was doing, and looked back at the person standing at the door.An An reached out and grabbed her mother, and asked a little flusteredly: "Where are my friends?" Not a single familiar face. "Where are my friends?" He looked at his mother in confusion, and backed away from the door. "Your friend, An An," my mother closed the door, "is like you, grown up, left kindergarten, and is going to primary school." An An lowered her head and rubbed her toes on the ground, "They—won't they come again?"

"Not again. Kindergarten is over..." The little boy stood there in a daze, and the guitar and the children's singing could be heard from somewhere.After a while, he broke away from his mother's hand, stuffed his hands into his trouser pockets, and walked towards the gate. "Mom, let's go!" On this sad summer vacation, An An found the sack in the basement. They're playing cops and thieves.Ann and Freddie were policemen, fully clothed, with stick pistols at their waists, ropes and keys slung from their shoulders.Freddy's three-and-a-half-year-old sister is a thief, with her hands tied together indiscriminately; two-and-a-half-year-old Feifei is a police dog, crawling hard on the ground, with a red ribbon around her neck.

The thief will be locked up.When the police opened the door of the cell, An An caught a glimpse of the sack in the corner. "You are liars, mom and dad are both!" An An shouted angrily with her face flushed, "Santa's beard, clothes, hat, mask...all of them are inside. I saw them all. !" Mom and Dad froze for a moment, then looked at each other and smiled.They had been waiting for this day to come, but when it did come, they were a little flustered.Dad put down the kitchen knife in his hand—it was the weekend, a day when Dad loved to cook.He sat down, put his son on his lap, and said: "Andres, listen, your dad also found Santa's stuff in the attic of grandma's house when you were your age. That's right, it's not Nicholas himself who appears in our garden every Christmas , but we didn't lie to you—" An An turned her face away stubbornly, expressing her disdain for Dad's explanation. "—I didn't lie to you, because Nicholas came to the world in such a red coat and red hat a long time ago, but because it has been too long and he is too old, he can't walk such a long way and brave the snow. We are fathers Damn, just work for him—do you call that cheating?" An An gradually calmed down.Feifei, who was still wearing a red ribbon around his neck, jumped into the kitchen, barking "Wow, woof, woof".An An rolled her eyes, jumped off her father's lap, and said while running: "I'm going to hide my old father-in-law's things, don't let my brother see them!" That evening, Ann and Freddy shut themselves in the room listening to music and reading picture books.The tape recorder played a song that An An loved very much...God touched the earth with His hand, and the spring grass was deep and deep... Mom heard An An's faint voice. "Freddy, you know what? I don't believe in a god—" "I don't think I believe either—" Freddy replied gravely. Then there was the sound of flipping a book.Both boys fell silent. Mom walked through their door. As soon as the opening ceremony was over, the new students, carrying colorful schoolbags, lined up in two rows in front of the classroom building.Familiar faces who disappeared from kindergarten reappeared.An An and her little friend Christine held hands tightly, waiting excitedly and anxiously.Mom, Dad, and Little Curly Feifei stood among the parents and waited. Suddenly a bell rang, and like an explosion, the air was ignited.The teacher is like a flamboyant hen, opening his arms in front of the team to act as a railing. Twenty children in class B of the first year, holding hands, began to walk towards the classroom door. Mother's eyes were locked on An'an, watching him move, and the various dinosaurs on the new schoolbag moved accordingly.This child is still so thin, so small, and the expression on his face still retains the childishness of that nursing baby... An An and the dinosaur walked forward, and as they walked, they didn't enter the dark door. An An didn't look back. Mother's eyes were still staring at the indescribably deep and indescribably far away door, her eyes blurred as she stared at it.