escape and return

Fangge stayed in this village for eight days. He and Fang Sheng were the only ones at home during the day. Fang Jianguo and Lin Fenghong got up early in the morning to go to work, and came back after six in the evening. Almost all the housework was handed over to Fangge.

Fang Lei hasn't been back since he went out that day, and he doesn't know where the rebellious teenagers are staying.Fang Sheng would go out and wander around most of the day. Fangge followed him secretly once and found that he would walk along the stream in the village. On a hot day, he just walked under the sun with his head down. At the end, he paused for a while, then turned and walked back.

The cicadas in the surrounding trees were shouting loudly, which made Fangge feel irritable.

Regardless of Shang Sheng's strange behavior, he quickly rushed back to the old house.

His younger brother hardly communicates with him, except for asking him for food.

Fang Jianguo and his wife never told him to call him brother, and Fang Sheng used "Hello" every time he talked to him.

Lin Fenghong and his wife dote on this little son very much. Although he looks silly, he has gathered the most love from his parents.Every day when the couple came back, they would come to find Fang Sheng first, and when they found them, they would hug them and kiss them. Every time Fang Ge saw them, he would stand not far away, pinching his trouser legs and looking at them, feeling extremely embarrassed.

For Fangge, among the many chores around the house, the most difficult thing is to dry and wash clothes.

Fang Jianguo and his wife are local decoration workers. Everyone will look for them for plastering and carpentry work such as plastering walls and making doors.With this kind of work, the clothes are easily stained with mud powder and other difficult-to-wash things. Every time he washes clothes, Fang Ge has to squat at the back door of the kitchen for half a day. Washing is not the most difficult thing, but drying is.

You have to go up to the second floor to dry clothes. Enter through the door next to the kitchen door, facing a narrow wooden staircase. There are a few moldy boards in the middle of the staircase. If you are not careful, you will step on it and get stuck in it. .Going up the stairs, the second floor is covered with dust everywhere, crowded with all kinds of old wooden products, the most conspicuous one is the coffin not far from the stairs, lying there so quietly, as if A pair of eyes stared at him fiercely.

Coupled with the sound of mice running from time to time, Fangge needs to build a strong mentality every time, so that he can pluck up the courage to push open the door, and then use all his strength to hug him. He quickly ran up the stairs with a basin of washed clothes, rushed through the coffin, and went straight to the wooden door leading to the light.

Hanging clothes to dry almost consumes Fangge's mental strength for a day, which is really a kind of torture.

Once, the clothes were too heavy, and Fangge ran in a hurry. When he was going up the stairs, he stepped on the rotten board, and his foot got stuck, and he couldn't pull it out in a hurry. It should not be said that the ground is not working, and there is still a coffin there to scare him.

Because of that kick, the whole person couldn't stand stably, the washbasin fell out of his hand, rolled down the stairs, and the clothes fell out and scattered on the steps, Fang Ge stared at the dirty clothes, the more he thought about it, the more aggrieved he became , Tears flowed down, but I didn't dare to cry loudly, I looked at the coffin above, for fear of being caught by ghosts.Later, thanks to Fang Sheng.

"Hey, hello... where are you?" The door at the stairway will bounce back every time it is opened, so no one else knows that he is inside.Fang Ge was sobbing on the dark stairs, and didn't bother to answer him.

"Where is it? I'm hungry and I want to eat." Fang Sheng became irritable, and the sound of hurried footsteps turned from the bedroom to the kitchen.When passing the door, Xu Shi heard his sobbing, the door was slapped open, and he saw Fang Ge who was half sitting on the steps with tears in his eyes.

Fangge wiped his face, suppressed his tears, tilted his head in embarrassment, and looked at Fang Sheng again, "Your foot is stuck, you have to wait before you eat. You just stand by your side and block the door. Come on, I won't give you food if you leave."

With the light and Fang Sheng by his side, Fangge was no longer afraid. He carefully looked at the shape of the hole, and moved it back and forth from left to right. In the past, he grabbed his ankle with both hands and pulled it up forcefully, and he came out.However, the instep probably has a layer of skin worn out, what a goddamn fool.

"Okay, hurry up and cook for me." Then he walked down the stairs, leaving a few footprints on his clothes.Fangge picked up the clothes on the ground and put them back into the washbasin, then limped towards the kitchen.

The days passed by very slowly, and Grid felt that he was going crazy here.Finally one day, Lin Fenghong came back from work early and took him to the hospital. Grandma was about to be discharged.

After the stroke, grandma couldn't walk her legs, she couldn't move the right side of her body, and she couldn't speak very well. The children gathered in the corridor of the hospital to discuss how to serve her.

Several daughters are married far away, like Lin Fenghong, who has a precious son at home, and the family conditions are difficult. It is unrealistic to ask her to stay by the old man's side to serve, and the three sons are reluctant, and the final decision is made The seven brothers and sisters take turns to take care of each of them for a week, and those who don't want to pay will pay. Lin Fenghong squinted her eyes, saw Fangge standing at the door eavesdropping, and pointed her hand, "Our family has a baby, where is the person? .”

Back in Lihe Village, Fangge's mood relaxed a little, but whenever those aunts and uncles were present, his heart was still high. The words of these adults were too strong, and they completely ignored other people's feelings.

After returning, Fangge’s life became even busier. The rotation period started with the three sons. The first week was at the uncle’s house. The summer vacation is not over yet. Every day, I saw my uncle come around and take care of me. Okay, grandma, I went back, completely failing to fulfill my responsibilities as a son.

Ever since he saw him beating his eldest daughter with his own eyes, Fang Ge was very afraid of this man with a fierce face, but he always secretly slandered and despised his various actions in his heart.With the eldest brother making samples, the two younger brothers below also followed suit when they were on duty, leaving all the work to Fangge.

Grandma's teeth fell out early, and she used to wear dentures to eat when she was healthy. After she fell ill, she never wore dentures, and the food she ate was soft and easy to chew.In order to improve nutrition, my grandfather would buy some lean meat every day, let the squares chop it into minced meat and cook soup for my grandmother as a side dish, and sometimes crack an egg into it.

Grandma couldn't move her right hand, nor could she use her left hand, so Fangge put a square stool in front of her, brought the cooked rice in front of her, and slowly fed her standing spoonful by spoonful.Fangge has great patience. He waited for his grandma to chew and finish the meal carefully. If there was soup overflowing from the corner of the old man’s mouth, he quickly wiped it off with a paper towel. Wronged, tears slid down her cheeks and dripped into her rice bowl.

Although the grandmother was not good to him, Fangge would still feel sorry for her when he saw the helplessness and sorrow revealed by the grandmother on the recliner. She can be by her side when she is sick.

The elderly can't walk, and they need to be dragged and hugged to go to the toilet. At that time, people in the countryside used the latrine to go to the toilet. In case of waking up at night, they would prepare a toilet in the house.Ever since my grandma came back from the hospital, every time she wanted to go to the toilet, she would call Fang Ge in that vague voice "ahh", and Fang Ge would run over and bring the toilet to her side, support her with all her strength, and hold her She moved to the toilet.Thanks to his grandmother who was skinny after being ill, otherwise Fang Ge would really not be able to support her.

Later, when Fangge started school, it happened to be the turn of the aunts. The daughters served her more attentively. They often squeezed the legs and backs of the grandmother, and even talked with the old man. The grandmother gradually became cheerful and talked more and more. clear.

My aunt originally had a ferocious face, very similar to my uncle's. With her eyes wide open, she was like the door god posted on the New Year's door.Ever since Fangge took care of grandma without complaint or regret, the aunt's fierce face also softened when she saw him.

Grandpa also started to be kind to Ge. He used to only buy fruit for his grandson, but now he would bring some back to Fangge occasionally. After he got the first place in the final exam, grandpa rewarded him with a Hero brand pen and prepared a pair of pens. A can of ink, which flattered Fang.

Fangge really felt his warmth when there was a flood in spring, and the water in the river rose so high that it reached Fangge's chest. In those few days, my grandfather got up early every day and carried him across the river, and at night Waiting for Fangge on the way home from work, and taking Fangge home on his [-]-bar bicycle.At that time, Fangge suddenly felt that his grandfather was very tall and his back was very broad, so he could walk steadily even in the rumbling flood with his back on his back.

When Fangge was in the fifth grade, her grandmother was able to stand up and walk. Although she was limping, she was very happy to be able to move freely.

In the past, they had a very good face. The third child next door often saw that the old couple was not pleasing to the eye, and there were many small conflicts between the two families.Her illness also eased the relationship between the third family and them a lot.Since she was able to leave, she often sat in front of the door and chatted with the third daughter-in-law. Sometimes a group of old women from the village would gather around and chat together.

At that time, Fangge could always hear praises from his grandmother, with a proud expression on his face, "This is my half son!"

At the beginning of junior high school, Fangge passed the entrance examination to the senior high school in the county with excellent grades, and he began his life in school from then on.For so many years, he has not waited for the arrival of Yuan Dashan's family, and Fangge faintly felt worried.

Two days before leaving for the county, he excused himself to report to school early, and left with a small amount of luggage.Before leaving, grandpa gave him 200 yuan as a month's living expenses.

Fangge took a car from Baiyan Town to the foot of the mountain along the route he remembered, and climbed up the road he walked a few years ago.

The mountain road is overgrown with weeds, as if telling passers-by that it has not been visited for a long time.His footsteps are much faster than before. He climbed up the steep mountain, and then passed through the several valleys. Many sections of the road under the forest have been submerged by Osmanthus fragrans. Fangge is holding a pine branch in front The road is knocking and knocking.

The cuckoo's chirping lingered in the quiet mountain forest, and occasionally the broken branches of the mountain fruit "clicked" and fell, and the squirrels made noises in the mountains. .Everything on the road seemed to herald the outcome of his return journey.