Chapter 40 Thirty-nine, a chicken feather

Chen Jianxia was not in a hurry to answer, she sniffed, turned sideways to avoid the shopkeeper's scrutiny from time to time, and said softly, "I'm home. It's fine." Li Ran asked smartly: "Is it convenient to talk?" "Well. My phone is broken, if you can't find me... don't worry." "Is your family mad at you again? Yes, just hum." What's the use of asking these.Chen Jianxia was moved and funny: "It would be great if you were my dad." "It's a good idea, if I were your father, you would be the daughter of a rich family."

Chen Jianxia couldn't help it anymore, she burst into laughter, looked up and saw the sensor light at the entrance of the building outside the window lit up, and her parents ran out one after the other. Jian Xia was startled: "Let's not talk about it now. I'm going to hang up." "Be careful and come back early." "Come back." Very pleasing to the ear. Jian Xia pushed open the frost-covered spring door of the commissary, and called out, "Dad, Mom." She waited for the general training, but they just walked over quickly, took her arm and said, go to the hospital, your grandma is not well.

The taxi was leaking everywhere, like a tin box that was about to fall apart, trembling like a stroke.Jian Xia leaned against the innermost part of the back row, squinting at the father sitting in the co-pilot and the mother beside him.Mom's hair is disheveled, and Dad has a nail mark on the cheekbone on the left cheek, and the argument was probably interrupted by a phone call. No one asked Chen Jianxia where he went just now and if he was in danger.Maybe it's embarrassing for the scandal between husband and wife to be known by the children. I hope so.Chen Jianxia felt sad. When the family of three rushed to the hospital, the grandmother had already died.Seeing that Xia Zao was mentally prepared, but at that moment, his heart ached, and tears flowed down the ground.The eldest aunt's house hadn't arrived yet, only the second uncle and Jian Xia's family were in the corridor, and it was rare that they didn't quarrel and wept together.

In the end, it was Jian Xia's mother who caused the war—"It was fine two days ago, why did it suddenly fail? How did you keep vigil?" Chen Jianxia sat on a bench beside her, stopped crying, stared at the two families quickly torn into a ball with wide eyes.Brother Dahui persuaded him at first, but when he saw Xia's mother pulling his mother's hair, he joined the fight with red eyes.Jian Xia stood up in a panic, and was hesitating whether to fight against the enemy when the eldest aunt's family also arrived, and the two families were finally separated. Then began the endless literary battle.

The heating in the hospital was not fully turned on, and the corridor in the middle of the night was a bit cold, and the cold air gradually penetrated into the body.Jian Xia curled up into a ball, so sleepy that his eyelids almost closed. This dispute will not be settled so easily. The second uncle’s family said that the grandmother left a will and named the house to the eldest grandson. Seeing that Xia’s mother insisted that the will was not notarized, who knows if it is the real intention of the old man... The nurses and doctors could not bear to advise, The most urgent task at present is to change the shroud for the elderly, stop at the mortuary to obtain a death certificate, and stop making trouble in the hospital.

As the doctor talked, he pointed in Jian Xia's direction: "Tell me about you, there is still a child here, how sleepy are you, and why are you making noise, why can't you go home and discuss things? Hurry up and take the child home to sleep!" Seeing that Xia couldn't restrain himself, he yawned in response.Seeing that Xia's mother hated iron and steel, she glared at her. While the men were going through the formalities, the three sisters-in-law and sister-in-law changed grandma into the shroud that the second uncle’s house had prepared long ago. Jian Xia looked in through the window. No similarities.She searched for the moments of family affection related to grandma in her mind, her nose was sore again, and she fell asleep on the bench while crying.

Perhaps it was because she saw her daughter's sleeping face covered with tears, and seeing that Xia's mother was not harsh, she dragged her away after waking up.There were many night shift taxis squatting at the entrance of the hospital. Seeing Xia dazedly opened the door and sat in the passenger seat, her parents were forced to sit in the back seat together. In the half-dream and half-awake state, she could hear the conversation between her parents in bits and pieces; but even if she was unconscious, she could feel that the atmosphere between her parents had thawed.Mom sat on the inside, and when she got out of the car, the road was icy and slippery. Dad helped her out of the car, and when she got back on her feet, she threw her away, but she was no longer so aggressive.

Is it true that old couples are involved too much, breaking bones and connecting tendons?Seeing an idea pop up in Xia's mind, she was very determined. This marriage is inseparable.Her home is safe. Xia woke up early the next morning, went to the living room to drink water, and saw her mother's handbag hanging on the hanger.Dad slept in the living room and Mom slept in the master bedroom, both snoring heavily.Jian Xia carefully opened the handbag, not even daring to take it off the hanger. Finally caught a small cube.Seeing that Xia Xia was overjoyed, she suddenly heard the sound of the bed in the master bedroom, and her mother seemed to turn over and sit up, and she was pulling the slippers on the floor.

There are no pockets on the top and bottom of the pajamas, Jian Xia hastily stuffed the battery into the waist, and clamped it with the elastic band of the pajama pants. "What are you doing?" Mom asked hoarsely for a moment. "I..." Seeing that Xia Khan had come down, "I'm having a nightmare." Mom's expression softened: "Because of your grandma? Do you want to come and sleep with me?" "It's okay. I can't fall asleep, and I will recite the vocabulary for a while." "Sleep a little longer, I have to go to your grandma's house all day today, I can't sleep even if I want to sleep."

"What about Xiaowei?" "Your cousin brought him back today." Seeing Xia nodded, while her mother was going to the kitchen to pour water, she hurriedly held down the battery block and fled back to the room, got into the bed to cover her head, and pressed the phone hard with a pillow to cover up the ringtone of the startup screen. Secretly texting Li Ran, the whole day of vigil at grandma's house was no longer difficult.A black and white portrait of grandma is placed high above the refrigerator in the living room, and a long burning lamp is burning in front of it, which will stay on until the day of grandma's funeral.Seeing Xia sitting on the sofa, watching her second aunt carefully refill the oil lamp inside, she lowered her hair and sent a text message after thinking about it: "Are all the elders in your family still there?"

"Only grandpa. When you come back, I will take you to see him. I like my grandpa the most." The last sentence is like a little boy, it is rare for Li Ran to reveal such childish warmth.Thinking that most of the knowledge he showed off came from this grandfather who was a postman, the corners of Xia's lips turned upwards, and he looked up at the portrait of his grandma, and couldn't help asking himself in his heart: Do you like anyone in this family? how come.She doesn't even like herself. The concept of "family" is so indifferent and thin. When I was a child, my heart was still rough. Even though the New Year's money was very little, the chicken wings were always distributed to the grandson. When watching the Spring Festival Gala, my brother sat on the sofa and she sat on the small bench... I was still happy when I set off firecrackers and posted blessings. , wearing a small croissant, smiling sweeter than anyone else. When she grows up, her family's natural contempt becomes the beam in her eyes, Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers are no longer a reason to be happy, only the elders can get some attention when they ask about the final exam rankings——Chen Jianxia discovered the secret of survival: to change Very useful.Different from her younger brother's innate importance, her existence has to be proved by herself. What's interesting is that the care and love that she really relies on comes from Li Ran, who doesn't care about her test scores at all. The phone vibrated again, and Li Ran said, "You don't need to go back when you are busy at home. Find me when you are free." Jian Xia replied with a smile: "Okay. When I go back, let's go see grandpa." Two days passed in a flash.At the funeral, the filial sons and grandsons knelt on the ground.Xiaowei thought of his grandmother who loved him so much and cried hoarsely. Seeing that Xia was in tears, he managed to comfort his younger brother.After the cremation was completed, the staff brought a huge rectangular aluminum tray and directed the family members to take turns to put on heat-insulated gloves to pick up the ashes and put them into the inner bag.Seeing that Xia was in a daze, she was wearing the gloves in the wrong direction, and her fingertips touched the hot bone fragments, which was extremely painful, so she forcibly endured it. Jian Xia thought it was grandma's prank.Grandma must have known she wasn't very sad. On the third day after the funeral, Xia Niang and her three returned to the provincial capital in the car of their cousin's house, speechless all the way.The younger brother was actually very happy, because his parents discussed it and decided to let him go back to the county to study, so that he would no longer have to be bullied by those arrogant classmates in the provincial capital.Originally, there was nothing famous about it, and it was not an option for the husband and wife to live apart all the year round, so the two sides took a step back, Dad and Aunt Lu ended up, and Mom gave up the plan to go to the work unit to make trouble.Seeing that Xia was reading in the living room and listened to their small quarrel in the bedroom, his father insisted that he and Xiao Lu just talked a lot and never touched their hands; neighbors also confirmed from the side that he went to the hospital to keep vigil except when he was at home. Very well behaved. Mom quarreled a few times, cried a few times, and finally gave up. Xia Xia was naturally happy to see such an ending, but deep down in her heart, she was extremely puzzled: Does not holding hands equal innocence?She still remembered how her father and Aunt Lu were together, Jian Xia believed that her father liked Aunt Lu. The realization made her feel both sympathetic and disgusting. This is the couple in the secular world, the inseparable house title deed, the inseparable children and relatives, who would spend so much painful time for love. It was already evening when we arrived at the entrance of the dormitory building.My mother came down with Jianxia, ​​walked a few steps away and said softly: "Be careful yourself...don't tell your brother about family affairs, I haven't had time to tell you. After two years, your brother may also be admitted to Zhenhua, At that time, you will be in college, and your parents will strive to move in together to take care of you." Jian Xia couldn't laugh or cry.Even if her younger brother passed the exam, she wouldn't stay in the provincial capital to study at university—what good schools are there in the provincial capital? She complied obediently, and her mother turned around and got back into the car, while her younger brother stuck to the passenger glass and made faces at her, and seeing Xia smiled, he watched the black Santana go away. The adhesive tape between the home and the house was torn off a little bit.