After a simple rebirth

I heard someone talking in a daze, it seemed to be my sister who had returned to her hometown.

"She's been lying outside for a while. Dad, try to wake her up. If she doesn't work, take her to the hospital immediately."

Then someone shook her shoulders.

"Xiaoying, Xiaoying, wake up"

It looks like dad.

I opened my eyes in confusion and it was indeed Dad Fu.

But why are there white spots and black spots on Fu's father's face? The white spots look like newly grown flesh, white and tender. The last time I saw Fu's father's face like this was many years ago when he and his mother had burns after doing business.

Fu's father and mother saw that their relatives were making money from business, and their own wages were too low, so they decided to start a business and sell cold dishes. After a month, they found that the family expenses were too high and the income was unstable, so they finally decided that Fu's mother would go back to work, and Fu's father would prepare the goods and set up the stall by himself.

One day, when Fu's father was burning pig's trotter hair, he accidentally caught fire. Fu's father quickly covered the fire with a quilt, but the quilt was not wet, and the fire covered by the quilt was squeezed everywhere by the air, and Fu's father was also burned by the fire. Fortunately, the family was used to using buckets of water, so Fu's father quickly poured a bucket of water on himself, and then used a hose to put out the fire under the quilt, and then went to the hospital for treatment.

At that time, Fu Ying and her brother took the school bus to and from school every day. They only found out that their father had gone to the hospital when they got out of school. When her father came back in the evening, the ointment was not obvious, but later on, the contrast between the large piece of new flesh and the old skin could be seen, the black and white were clear.

Later, Fu's father gave up the idea of ​​doing business. After setting up a stall for another month, he finally found a job in a factory again.

Seeing his daughter's empty eyes and no response, Fu's father thought she had not recovered yet. He quickly asked her if she felt uncomfortable or dizzy.

Fu Ying finally came back to her senses from her memories. She looked at her obviously young father and the skin on his face, then at the big tree at the door and her sister's house next door.

This seems to be my sister's home many years ago, and later my home. My sister lived here until she returned to her hometown, and then my family moved here. I think it was about a year or two. It was too long ago, I can't remember.

The sister at the door was also asking, "Xiaoying, are you dizzy? If you want to vomit, let's go to the hospital."

Fu Ying subconsciously wanted to answer, but before she could speak, she coughed a few times. Then she shook her head. She was indeed a little dizzy, but it was okay.

Fu Ying still didn't understand what was going on.

Is this a dream? I was dreaming about junior high school?

She remembered this incident. In fact, she was poisoned by gas, but fortunately it was mild.

It seemed that she went to her sister's house to play some time before the high school entrance examination. Her sister was doing handicrafts, so she helped take care of some nephews. Her sister had three children, and the third child was only two months old. After the children fell asleep, she fell asleep too.

In Guangdong Province, clothes are very hard to dry during the return of the south wind, so my sister kept burning honeycomb coal to dry clothes. The air was not circulating, and she later learned that it was very easy to get gas poisoning in that state, and she probably fainted because she inhaled too much gas.

She slept for a long time that day. All the other children had woken up, but she was still asleep. Her father, who was just getting off work, passed by and was stopped by her sister, who told him that Fu Ying was sleeping there. Her father went into the room and wanted to ask his daughter to go home, but he found a strong smell of gas. He quickly opened the window to let in some fresh air, and then carried Fu Ying out to the bench outside, whereupon she slowly woke up.

Seeing that Fu Ying was fine, Dad Fu asked her to sit on a chair and rest. He was going back to cook. Mom Fu would get off work soon and would need to eat. She might have to work overtime at the factory, so she would not have enough time for lunch.

The sister nervously carried her little nephew to her side, touched her forehead, and let her rest for a while.

The eldest nephew who went out to buy ice cream came back with his sister and huddled next to his mother and aunt.

There were 5 small ice creams in a bag of 5 cents. He gave them to his mother first, then to his aunt, one to him, one to his sister, and one to him. The eldest nephew asked his mother:

"Mom, there's one more. Can I have one more?"

"You eat it. I'll give this to your sister. You can each have two," his mother gave the one in her hand to his sister.

The two children said to Fu Ying: "Auntie, look, we have blue and pink."

Fu Ying is holding a small ice cream that can be eaten in one bite? It can also be called a small popsicle. This is the ice cream that I wanted to eat but couldn’t eat often when I was in junior high school. My sister often bought this, and we could share a pack together. Almost everyone had one.

I never bought it again and never saw it sold in supermarkets.

The niece was good friends with Fu Ying. She held her legs and asked her to eat quickly, and she also licked a bite herself.

Fu Ying put the ice cream in her mouth. It was icy and sweet, with a saccharin taste, a very real one.