Still tide

The children in the countryside didn't know the inexplicable thoughts of the children in the city. They were only worried and afraid. Chen Chao said "it's okay" many times, but Miao Jiayan was still uneasy, and then sat down next to Chen Chao.The two sat together on the steps by the well, one with beauties on their faces, and the other with worries and sorrows.

"Is this not over?" Miao Jiayan murmured to herself.

Chen Chao didn't hear clearly, and asked, "What?"

Miao Jiayan then repeated: "I said I'm done."

"What's over?" Chen Chao asked again.

"Grandma Chen asked me to take care of you before she left, you are all broken now..." Miao Jiayan turned her head to look at Chen Chao again, the sadness in her eyes could not be contained, "You are broken."

Chen Chao subconsciously touched his eye sockets again. The pain was gone now, but it was hot and swollen. Chen Chao said, "It's okay, let's break it."

Miao Jiayan glanced at him with a surprised expression.

He was indeed a little surprised.Grandma Chen, the grandson who came back from the city, is very delicate. He doesn't eat this or that, and has a big temper. Miao Jiayan just thought he would lose his temper.

It's really not enough to get angry.Although Chen Chao usually has a lot of things to do, most of his irritability is due to not adapting to the environment. He didn't feel relieved that he couldn't get angry after such a knock.

What Miao Jiayan was worried about didn't happen, Chen Chao didn't get angry, and Grandma Chen didn't blame him either.Grandma Chen came back and saw it and asked, and joked with Miao Jiayan: "Is little brother stupid?"

Miao Jiayan quickly shook her head.

Grandma Chen supported her grandson's head with both hands, looked at it, let go of it and smiled and said, "It's all right, I'm fine, I have to become a one-eyed panda tomorrow."

Grandma Chen was right in her words. Early the next morning, Chen Chao's eyelids were swollen and bruised. He looked funny and pitiful.

It's normal for boys to have bumps and bumps. When Chen Chao's father was a child, he often came back with a bruised nose and a swollen face. Whether it was a fight with someone or a fall over a wall, Grandma Chen didn't even bother to ask.The son is naturally no better than the grandson, and the grandson still feels distressed when his grandma knocks him down, so he put some anti-inflammatory ointment on it.

Because of this knock, Miao Jiayan often came to see Chen Chao.When he came, he directly aimed at Chen Chao's face, and Chen Chao made him feel uncomfortable.

"Does it still hurt?" Miao Jia Yandi asked countless times.

Chen Chao was silent for a while, and then said, "It doesn't hurt."

Although Chen Chao said so, his face looked really scary, and Miao Jiayan felt that he had a lot to do with being like this.However, in Chen Chao's mind, this matter has nothing to do with Miao Jiayan, it's just that he didn't pay attention to it, and the little girl next door cares and greets her every day with a worried face, which is really unacceptable to him.

This is so nasty, it almost killed a teenager of this age.

After the two of them were silent for a while, Chen Chao said, "I'm fine, don't ask any more questions."

Miao Jiayan didn't say anything, just frowned slightly and looked at Chen Chao's eyes.

Chen Guangda called Chen Chao's mobile phone several times. Chen Chao usually put the mobile phone in his school bag when he didn't use it, and the battery was dead.Chen Guangda called home, and it was Grandpa Chen who answered the call.

Grandpa Chen called Chen Chao downstairs: "Grandson, your dad's phone number—"

Chen Chao heard it, and stood at the stairs and called, "What's the matter with him?"

Grandpa Chen shouted again: "Your dad misses you—"

Chen Chao shouted: "If you don't answer, tell him not to think about it!"

Grandpa Chen quickly conveyed: "Don't think about it, I won't answer."

Chen Guangda asked unconvincingly on the phone: "Are you angry with me?"

"I don't know," said Grandpa Chen, "We usually can't talk about you."

"..." Chen Guangda was silent on the phone for a while, and had no choice but to hang up.

It was already August that Chen Chao's face had fully recovered, and the weather was getting hotter and hotter every day, almost steaming Chen Chao.

He used to spend the summer at home with the air conditioner setting the indoor temperature at 23 degrees, and he never suffered from this crime.

Grandpa Chen has also researched whether it is possible to install an air conditioner for his grandson, but people say that the wires in their old house cannot handle the high power of the air conditioner, and there are hidden dangers.And I don't know how long the grandson will live, and Chen Guangda didn't say anything. If Chen Guangda picks him up right after the installation, the air conditioner will be useless, and the old man won't be able to use it.Later, Grandpa Chen installed two electric fans in his grandson's room, one vertical one facing Chen Chao's bed far away, and one small desktop one placed on the corner of the table away from the direction of the pillow to shake his head and blow.The screens were nailed on, too, so that the windows could be left open all night long.

Although my hometown is not directly on the coast, it is only more than 20 kilometers away from the sea, and the air is very humid.At night, the fan blows all the hot air, which makes the whole body dry. This dry and damp feeling made Chen Chao sit cross-legged on the bed in the middle of the night. Looking back at the previous constant temperature of 23 degrees, he felt like he was dreaming.

Chen Chao had prickly heat rash on his back, and he hadn't had it much since he could remember.

The prickly heat is very itchy. Compared with the prickly heat, the itchiness of the mosquito bag is nothing.

Grandma got a jar of prickly heat powder and patted it on the back of her grandson every morning and night.It's useless to take pictures, Chen Chao has to wash it several times a day, and it's all washed away.

One day Miao Jiayan came to deliver something, and Chen Chao was shirtless being patted with prickly heat powder by his grandma. As soon as Miao Jiayan came in, she smelled the unique smell of prickly heat powder, sniffed it and asked, "Have you got prickly heat?"

Miao Jiayan walked lightly. Chen Chao and his grandma didn't notice him just now, but when he suddenly heard him talking, Chen Chao grabbed his clothes and put them on before turning his head.

"No, he can't stand the heat." Grandma Chen said to Miao Jiayan.

Chen Chao turned around after getting dressed, seeing Miao Jiayan blinking and staring at him without hesitation, he was a little speechless for a while.

In fact, Miao Jiayan saw the picture of Chen Chao taking prickly heat powder and didn't know why he wanted to laugh, but he sensibly didn't laugh out loud, and just said: "I used to wear this when I was young, if I don't sweat, it will be fine soon. "

Chen Chao lost his temper and went out to sit in the small pergola in the yard.

The day Chen Chao received a call from his father, it rained a little.Chen Chao was very comfortable, even in a good mood.When the phone rang, he looked at the caller ID and answered it.

"Who are you looking for?"

When Chen Guangda heard that his son picked it up, he was happy: "Looking for you."

Chen Chao: "I don't know, hang up."

Chen Guangda smiled and said, "Don't hang up, Dad is missing you."

Chen Chao has been reduced to the point where he can be happy just because of a little rain, and how can he respond to his father's missing.Not leaving directly by car to go to grandma's house to blow up the air conditioner is already the deepest love a son has for his father.

"How are you, son?" Chen Guangda was able to ask this on the phone.

"Very good." Chen Chao replied calmly, "Alive."

Chen Guangda asked, "Are you comfortable staying?"

Chen Chao stood there for two seconds, not even knowing what to do.

Chen Guangda: "Hello?"

Chen Chao: "It's okay."

"Then you can live at grandma's house first, dad can't go back here for a while." When Chen Guangda said this, the relaxation just now was gone, and he paused for two seconds and asked, "Do you miss your mother? You have to live enough at grandma's house, or go to mother's for a few days?"

Chen Chao didn't think about it, and said, "No, I won't go."

Chen Guangda smiled again, and asked him, "Are you blaming Dad?"

"No, hang up, you pay attention." After Chen Chao finished talking, he really stopped talking. When Chen Guangda said "Let's do this first", Chen Chao said "Yes", and hung up the phone.

Chen Chao is a person who is very afraid of being bored. He can't speak and doesn't like to listen to the words of crooked people. This is very tormenting for him.

Chen Guangda occasionally sent him a text message asking him "Do you miss Dad?" Every time it annoyed Chen Chao to death, he threw away his phone and refused to look at it again.

After answering the phone call, Chen Guangda could not look for his son for a week, and Chen Chao could also stop for a week.

It has been raining continuously for several days. Chen Chao has been in a good mood recently, with a peaceful temperament in his whole body, and even looks gentle in his eyebrows and eyes.

Sometimes Miao Jiayan passed by and saw him, and would look at him more strangely, thinking that he couldn't tell why he was more pleasing to the eye than before.

Compared with Chen Chao's stinky face every day, Miao Jiayan is just a happy rural kid at ease.He does all the work in the family's field very smoothly. He soaks some fruit in the well to share with the neighbors when he has nothing to do. Every few days, he wears that white skirt and drives the family's ducklings and geese to the meadow. Pick up a small bag of wild duck eggs and come back.When it's hot, I wear a straw hat with a wide brim, or tie my hair up.

Chen Chao can often see Miao Jiayan tie her hair up, with the leather sheath tied on two fingers, randomly comb her hair with her hands, and tie a little tail behind her head that looks messy.Girls with long hair in school used to have braids or neat ponytails, but there really wasn't anyone who tied their hair so confusedly.

Chen Chao sometimes felt that Miao Jiayan was too wild, the kind of rough and undisciplined one who grew up freely in the village, with her hair tied up messily, not far from boys.But I can accept it after watching too much, and I think there is nothing wrong with it.

But happy children are not always happy. It was the first time Chen Chao saw Miao Jiayan's parents come back, and that night there was a commotion in the next door.At that time, Chen Chao had already laid down and was going to sleep. It was the first time she heard Grandma Miao lose her temper.Miao Jiayan's father also sounded very angry and yelled fiercely.

Early the next morning, Grandma Chen said to Chen Chao: "Go and call Xiao Miaoer over in the morning, don't let him stay at home, and wait until his father gets angry before beating him."

Chen Chao asked, "Why beat her?"

Chen Chao had never been beaten, and no one in his family liked to do it.As his son, he didn't get beaten, but Chen Chao didn't understand that a little girl like Miao Jiayan was beaten.

"Oh," Grandma Chen said with a sigh, "I can't see him growing his hair."

Chen Chao raised his eyebrows, feeling that he didn't hear clearly: "What?"

"Little Miao'er is so stubborn, he won't cut his hair no matter what, because his father gets angry about it every time he comes back." Grandma Chen said to Chen Chao again, "You can take him out to play later. "

Chen Chao couldn't understand it at all: "Beating without cutting your hair?"

Grandma Chen sighed again and said nothing.

Because he was beaten for not cutting his hair, Chen Chao heard for the first time that he was sick or someone else was sick, anyway, someone must be sick.

Grandpa Chen would go to sea occasionally. He used to be a fisherman. Grandpa lived by the sea when he was a child, and their family moved here later.Now he doesn’t point to going out to sea to make a living, but Grandpa Chen still can’t let it go, and often goes out to sea with the boat to catch the net.

Grandpa Chen brought some fish slices back to Chen Chao yesterday, saying that children love to eat this.Chen Chaopian is an exception, he doesn't like to eat these, he finds them fishy.

In the morning, Chen Chao went to the next door with the fish fillets, and Grandma Chen asked him to bring Xiao Miao'er out directly by using his head.

Chen Chao has been here for so long, and he is already familiar with Grandpa Miao and Grandma Miao.Grandma Miao saw that he was here, and hurriedly asked, "Should I look for Xiaoyan? Xiaoyan is upstairs, hurry up!"

Chen Chao didn't want to go, what was he doing in the room.

"I'm not going up, so I'll go back first, this is for her to eat." Chen Chao put down his things and was about to leave.

"It's okay, you go up and play!" Grandma Miao was very enthusiastic, she didn't let Chen Chao go, she approached him and whispered, "His dad beat me, I didn't stop you, help grandma go up and have a look, don't get angry gone."

Chen Chao couldn't leave after hearing this, so he had to go upstairs.

He hadn't been in Miao's house a few times, and most of the time he came was only in the outside yard, and this was the first time he went upstairs.

He and Miao Jiayan walked around a lot because they lived close to the usual time. If we were to say that we knew each other very well, Chen Chao was not a character who could get along very well with little girls.Chen Chao felt awkward going upstairs, and planned to go up and call Miao Jiayan and leave.

The layout of the Miao family and the Chen family is similar. At that time, they built small buildings successively, and the two families helped to build this house first and then the other house.The two houses are very large, with two bedrooms and one living room on the upper floor, plus a small toilet. There is a solar water heater on the roof, and the small toilet can take a shower.

Chen Chao cleared his throat and called out, "Miao Jiayan?"

The door of Miao Jiayan's room was closed and she didn't make a sound.

Chen Chao walked to the door of his room and was about to knock, but unexpectedly the door next to him rang first.Chen Chao turned his head subconsciously, his face turned red immediately, and he immediately carried his back and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

Miao Jiayan was also stunned, standing there naked with her hair still dripping.

"Why are you here..." Miao Jiayan didn't have any clothes to change, and his clothes were all in the bedroom, so it was uncomfortable to stand like this, so she came over with a "patta pata" on her slippers.

Chen Chao was going crazy, his face and head were about to explode.Miao Jiayan's behavior broke through the lower limit of his cognition.

"Are you looking for me?" Miao Jiayan asked again.

Chen Chao's position is very desperate. If he wants to turn around, he can see Miao Jiayan. If he doesn't, Miao Jiayan has already come.Just when Chen Chao was about to close his eyes and bypass Miao Jiayan and go downstairs directly, Miao Jiayan quickly opened the door from beside him and entered the room.

I didn't close the door when I went in, just said "wait for me for a while", and started looking for clothes to wear.

However, Chen Chao was stunned at this moment.

The moment Miao Jiayan passed by just now, Chen Chao caught him off guard.When Miao Jiayan came out of the bathroom, Chen Chao didn't see anything at first glance, and when she realized what was going on, she quickly turned around.

But Chen Chao did seem to see something in that glance just now.

"You..." Chen Chao didn't know if it was appropriate to ask this question, he was already confused now.

Miao Jiayan had already put on her underpants and was putting on shorts. Hearing this, she leaned back and looked out, asking, "What's wrong with me?"

He put on his clothes and trousers so calmly, he opened the door and put on one by one in front of Chen Chao.

Chen Chao still couldn't believe it, looked at Miao Jiayan and asked, "Are you a boy or a girl?"

Miao Jiayan blinked, she didn't expect Chen Chao to ask this question, and she was obviously confused.

The two looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes. After a long time, Miao Jiayan stammered and said, "I'm a boy..."