Double Life: My whole world is you

The next day, Cheng Qiao's biological clock woke up at 5:25 again. It was still dark, and since she didn't have to go to school, Cheng Qiao was going to sleep a little longer. But her grandmother got up at this time. Then she heard footsteps going up and down the stairs, and finally the sound of the door opening. Cheng Qiao sighed silently, rubbed her eyes, and got up as well.

Grandma was carrying two buckets, one bucket of diapers and the other bucket of clothes. It was already late autumn, and although the daytime temperature in the south was still over 10 degrees, it was really cold in the morning. Cheng Qiao, who was wearing two layers of clothes, sneezed twice.

"I told you to go in and sleep but you refused. Go in and put on some more clothes." Grandma said while rubbing the diaper in her hands.

"It's okay, it won't be cold after a while." Cheng Qiao quickened his movements.

After washing the clothes, grandma took the farm tools and basket and prepared to dig sweet potatoes. Cheng Qiao followed after drying the last piece of clothes with a small basket in her hand.

The vegetable garden was not far from the house, less than a mile away. She followed her grandmother past the primary school, across several field ridges, and then passed a small hill, but there were more than a dozen graves scattered on the hill. The graves here were not managed in a unified manner, and the deceased ancestors were buried in their own fields, so it was normal to occasionally come across graves. But for the timid Cheng Qiao at that time, she did not dare to pick vegetables alone.

After passing the hill, there were no houses. There was a large area of ​​fields. Although there were not many people planting crops now, there were still many vegetable fields. She followed her grandmother and walked along a path less than one person wide for about 100 meters before stopping at a field. Her grandmother opened a door woven with thorns and walked in.

The vegetable garden is not very big, only about half an acre, and is divided into five plots. At this time, the vegetables in front of us are Chinese cabbage, Chinese cabbage, radish, lettuce, etc. Grandma introduced that the three plots at the back are planted with cauliflower, cabbage and white radish. They have just been planted and have not grown yet.

Cheng Qiao saw a few wooden sticks supporting vines in the middle of the vegetable field, with two large pumpkins on them. "Grandma, this pumpkin is so big, it must be at least ten kilograms!"

"These two are specially saved for seeds," said the grandmother. "We still have five or six pumpkins left at home."

"Grandma, let's eat pumpkin dumplings in the morning!" Cheng Qiao was very excited. She hadn't eaten this for a long time.

"Don't you like eating these?" Grandma asked with a smile.

Cheng Qiao remembered that when she was a child, she didn't like to eat these dough balls, so her grandmother and mother Cheng tried to make them as little as possible, and even if they did, they would specially make other things for her to eat. Thinking of this, Cheng Qiao smiled silently. Although her family was poor, she grew up under the care of her grandmother and mother Cheng. So she didn't suffer much hardship from childhood to adulthood. Even if she did, she was happy.

Grandma was weeding in the vegetable garden, and Cheng Qiao was helping. While pulling weeds, she asked, "Grandma, aren't we going to dig sweet potatoes? Why can't we see them?"

"It's below. There's a large piece of land below that also belongs to us," grandma introduced.

Cheng Qiao dropped the weeds in his hand and asked excitedly, "Grandma, which one is it?"

Grandma finished her work and took her to the left, pointing to a piece of land below and said, "That's it."

"It's quite big!" Cheng Qiao said, looking at the large patch of green stems and leaves.

Grandma nodded, "More than an acre of land."

"Grandma, how do we get down?" Cheng Qiao asked, looking at the vegetable field and the place nearly two meters high below.

"I'll go down and pick you up first." Grandma said as she took the hoe and walked down the slope step by step. Cheng Qiao looked at the slope that was almost 90 degrees and gave a thumbs up to the grandma below.

"You come down too. I'll pick you up down there." Grandma said, "The ground down there is soft too. It'll be fine."

Although Cheng Qiao was a little scared, she still grabbed the weeds around her and slowly went down more than one meter. She then jumped down for the remaining one meter.

She followed her grandmother over this plot of land, and the slope below was also two meters. She climbed three plots of land in the same way before reaching their sweet potato plot. Cheng Qiao looked at the vegetable garden about 50 to 60 meters away from them and sighed softly, "It's really not easy."

Grandma was digging with a hoe, while Cheng Qiao was behind her, tearing off the sweet potatoes and their stems and leaves and throwing them into the basket. Soon the basket was full. Grandma also sorted some thinner sweet potato leaves and put them in the basket.

The acre of land was divided into eight plots, and the basket they dug was only one-third of one plot. Cheng Qiao saw that two plots had been dug, and there were still five or six plots to go, so she said, "Grandma, there are still so many, let's dig again in the afternoon!"

"Not many. The three plots inside are planted with peanuts." Grandma introduced with a smile, "I know you like to eat peanuts, so I specially planted one more plot this year."

"Wow! So many peanuts!" Cheng Qiao was very happy, "Grandma, when will the peanuts be ripe?"

"We planted late this year, so it will probably be ripe next month," said the grandmother, picking up the basket with a hoe and leading her forward.

Cheng Qiao wanted to help carry the basket, but it was too heavy for her to lift, so she just obediently followed her grandmother carrying the small basket of vegetables.

On the way back, they did not walk up the slope to the vegetable field, but walked along the edge of the field and made a big circle before reaching the entrance of the vegetable field. Grandma put down the basket and closed the thorny door again.

She and her grandmother walked happily on the road. Cheng Qiao followed her grandmother and said, "Grandma, we will eat pumpkin dumplings in the morning and sweet potatoes at noon."

"It's fine for me, but I don't think it's possible for you and Yingying." Grandma said, "We have pumpkin dumplings in the morning and lunch at noon. If you want sweet potatoes, I'll roast two for you in the stove."

"Okay! Grandma, let's eat roasted sweet potatoes." Cheng Qiao was very happy.

When we got home, Yingying had woken up. She was sitting at the door crying without any clothes on. Grandma and Cheng Qiao quickly put down the things they were holding and carried her into the room.

"Silly child, why don't you go find your mother?" grandma scolded her while dressing her.

"Mom doesn't love me, and she won't open the door." Yingying cried even harder.

"Mom is probably still sleeping." Grandma comforted her.

"Grandma lied, and mom scolded me." Yingying retorted.

"Okay, Yingying, be good and don't cry. Grandma will cook some pumpkin dumplings for you." After dressing her, grandma helped her wipe her tears.

"Pumpkin dumplings are not tasty, I don't want to eat them." Yingying said loudly, "I want to eat noodles with eggs in them."

"Okay! Yingying, be good and don't cry. I'll do as you say." Grandma said kindly.

Cheng Qiao looked at all this and it was as if she saw herself when she was little. When she was throwing tantrums and being unreasonable, her grandmother would coax her in the same way. In her previous life, she could only act like this in front of her grandmother, and people only dared to act unreasonably in front of someone who spoiled them unconditionally.