Chapter 7 mother turtle

Nuanyu is a piece of jade that my mother keeps in her heart, it is so cold that it hurts.But Nuanyu knew that her mother would still hold her tightly, letting her heart ache for a long time until it stopped beating. Nuan Yu was bedridden all day long, like a doll with some breath left.My mother is getting old, and her nagging figure is shrinking day by day, as if she is about to disappear into a place that cannot be touched by living beings.They know that the hands of despair have already reached out to themselves, but they still hold on to each other as their only hope. In this simple hut, Nuanyu, her mother, and four little tortoises about the size of a man's palm lived in the river.Mother revolves around Nuanyu all day long, while the tortoises love to follow their mother, clapping their feet: blah blah blah.As soon as Nuan Yu heard this voice that seemed to declare her vitality, she felt a little disgusted by the four little turtles who were following her mother.Was she going to let the turtles be her offspring instead, she thought in horror? !This kind of assumption is absurd, but who told her that her vitality could not even match that of a tortoise.

Nuan Yu's assumption seems to have come true.The more time passed, the mother and the four little turtles got closer.When the sun is warm during the day, my mother doesn’t sit on the bed and talk to Nuanyu. She leads the tortoises to the back of the house to clean and feed the chickens—”Here, we must scatter grain like this, they will grow up quickly, We have delicious food!" Nuan Yu always heard her mother explaining to the little turtle softly in the room.Then mother took the tortoises up the hill again, picked up a basket of juicy mushrooms, and soon stewed a pot of delicious mushroom chicken soup.Mother served the first bowl of soup, put the turtles on the table, picked up a spoonful of soup, blew it cold with her mouth, and fed it to the turtles while muttering: "Hey, remember which hillside we climbed to pick fresh mushrooms?" Is it right? The stewed chicken soup is according to the recipe I just made, and the taste is simmered slowly, you have to remember this!" Nuan Yu remembered that her mother's first bowl of soup belonged to her before, and these soft words chanted her Never heard of it.When the wind was no longer blowing at night, my mother didn't sit on the bed to comfort Nuan Yu to sleep. She opened the wooden box next to her bed, fetched the rags that were folded on the bed, and sewed the clothes stitch by stitch. "See? One stitch here, another stitch here, here..." Mother danced her needle and thread while explaining to the four little turtles on the bed: "Here, that's it! The material used to sew new clothes." Mom pointed to the beautiful material in the wooden box, which was her dowry when she was young and she was reluctant to use it for many years. She said that the best things should be saved for the best time to enjoy... Is mom confused?How could you expect those four rattling guys to learn how to feed chickens, pick mushrooms, make soup and even sew clothes? !Even though she couldn't do it... Nuan Yu pursed her lips tightly and closed her eyes.

The four little tortoises followed their mother all the time.When beating the bones for Nuanyu, my mother said to the tortoise: "The strength is neither light nor heavy, so that she can relax her muscles and bones comfortably." When holding Nuanyu to the toilet or in front of the door to bask in the sun, her mother said to the tortoise: "Use all your strength. Just hug her, or it will be terrible if you fall off!" While brushing Nuanyu's hair and face, mother said to the turtle again: "The tangled hair needs to be gently combed with hands, and a soft towel should be used to wipe the face slightly when washing the face. Clean." Nuan Yu took those words as her mother finally felt that she was a trouble, so she complained to the turtles.

The mother's figure shrank even smaller, and it began to look hazy from a close distance.In this way, after a long time, mother... Her figure no longer appeared in Nuan Yu's sight, and she really disappeared to that place that living beings can't touch... On that day, a group of relatives came to Nuan Yu's aftermath. something.Nuan Yu sat on the bed numbly, and the water droplets in her eye sockets were also numb.Strangely, after the mother disappeared, the four little turtles disappeared at the same time!Nuanyu guessed that her mother took them away and left with her hope. When the relatives left one after another, four very small strangers were left behind. "We are distant relatives that your mother asked to take care of you." They said to Nuan Yu.Every day thereafter, the four strangers combed Nuanyu's hair and face, fed her mushroom chicken soup, beat her bones and hugged her to the bathroom, basked in the sun, and during the Chinese New Year they sewed new clothes out of wooden boxes for Nuanyu to wear.Nuanyu is taken care of by strangers, and the way they take care of her reminds her of her mother, but her mother doesn't make a rattling sound when she walks—yes, another special thing about strangers is that they always walk rattling The rattling!

Papa papa... Nuan Yu on the bed was startled suddenly, looking at the four figures in the room who were busy with her, the ones walking in front of her looked like mothers one after another... At this point, Nuan Yu burst into tears.