Chapter 60 Clean water and dust (5)

The sky stove filled the pot with water again, and he stirred the coals, causing golden sparks to fly like dandelions, and then he put in two thicker pine poles.Then Granny staggered out of the house, her wet hair was dry but still hanging on her shoulders and untwisted, which made her look ugly.Grandma is bloated, with bags under her eyes hanging loosely, usually they are like two green grapes, but today because of crying, the bags under her eyes are like a pair of red lantern flowers, and those age spots are crawling on her face like old fallen leaves.Tianzao wanted to tell grandma that only thick and dark hair is suitable for wearing, and if gray and sparse hair is pulled down in different lengths, it will give people a feeling of idiot.But he didn't want to make grandma sad anymore, so he immediately lowered his head to boil the water.

"Tianzao—" Grandma said with a sad and indignant tone, "You dislike me so much? You poured the water I used, and you didn't take a second look when I stood in front of you?" Tianzao didn't speak up, nor did he raise his head. "You don't want grandma to live this year?" Grandma's voice became more and more sad. "No." Tianzao said, "I just want to bathe with clean water, not the water used by others. I don't use Tianyun's either." Tianzao said with his head down. "Tianyun's water is used to paint lanterns!" Grandma argued childishly.

"I won't use the water my mother used for a while." Tianzao emphasized. "What about your father's?" Grandma asked reluctantly. "No!" Tianzao said firmly. Then grandma said kindly: "Tianzao, everyone gets old, don't look at you as a child now, with thin skin and tender flesh, sooner or later you will be as loose and loose as grandma, don't you think so? " In order to let grandma leave quickly, Tianzao raised his head and glanced at her, and replied simply: "Yes!" "When I was your age, I was more juicy than you." Grandma said, "It's as tender as the first spring onions that come out of the ground!"

"I believe it!" Tianzao said, "I'm definitely not as good as grandma when I'm old, can't I bend so hard that my head almost touches the ground, and I have a silly face?" Grandma laughed a few times at first, and then she probably realized that the vision planned by her grandson for herself was too bleak, so she said: "Disease is caused by dogs. How can people develop skin disease? Even skin disease is caused by those who have lost their conscience. Long. You know that people will always be old, and you are not allowed to curse yourself." Tianzao said, "Ah——!"

Grandma asked incessantly whether the lanterns were brushed clean, and whether the soybeans that should be fried had been soaked.Then she stroked the lid of the water tank with her hand, thinking that the sludge on it was still in place, so she blamed the family for being too lazy to cook, and there was no Chinese New Year atmosphere.Then she babbled about how she spent her youth, which was both clean and rich.In the end, my mouth was dry, and then I went back to the house with a sigh.Tianzao heard grandma coughing continuously in the room, so he knew she was going to sleep.Before going to bed every night, she always cleans her lungs and coughs thoroughly before falling asleep peacefully.Sure enough, as soon as the cough stopped, the light in grandma's room disappeared.

Tianzao let out a long breath. Over the years, my mother took a very long bath, at least an hour.It is said that it needs to be soaked thoroughly before all the ash on the body can be rubbed off.However, this year she came out after only half an hour of washing.Seeing Tianzao, she asked eagerly, "Your dad hasn't come back yet?" "No." Tianzao said. "It's been so long," the mother said sadly, "the ten bathtubs have all been mended." Tianzao picked up the dirty water bucket and was about to pour out the water used by his mother, when his mother said, "Your father hasn't come back yet, and my washing time this year is short, so you can wash with mother's water."

Tianzao firmly said: "No!" My mother glanced at Tianzao in surprise, and said, "Then I'll wash two clothes in the water first, it's a pity to throw away such good water." Mother went to wash with two dirty clothes.Tianzao heard the sound of clothes being vigorously rubbed on the washing board, like a pig eating too much.Tianzao thought, if his father didn't come home in time, the two clothes would have to be washed to shreds. However, these two clothes are not unlucky, just when the sound of washing clothes became a little shrill, my father came to the door with a cold air.He looked flustered, and his face was covered with black and gray, like the facial makeup of an old man in Peking Opera.

"Is it time for me?" He asked Tianzao. Tianzao let out a "hmm".At this time, the mother came out of it with hands covered in soap bubbles, she glanced at her man, raised her eyebrows, and said, "Oh, after so long repairing, I even got dust on my face, the leak is plugged, right? " "It's blocked." The father said with a gaping mouth. "Is it well blocked?" The mother burst out three words from between her teeth. "Okay." Dad replied blankly.