round spring

Brother Chun said that I can drink milk all the time, I want to grow up quickly...

——An Yuan's Diary

After the car stopped at home, An Yuan was tired from crying, and fell asleep lying on Shen Xingchun's shoulder. Before Shen Xingchun opened the door, he pushed down the hat on An Yuan's head to keep him out of the wind, and wrapped his arms around his thighs. , holding him out of the car.

After getting off the car, Grandpa Shen thanked Uncle Li: "I've been torturing you tonight, it's already midnight, go back to sleep quickly."

Uncle Li waved his hand, "Uncle, if you say this, you will see someone else. In a village, I will not go out for a sports car before the New Year. If you need a car for something, you can just say hello to me. I will come and call you when you go to the town to buy new year's goods in two days." Dachun..."

Uncle Li looked back after finishing speaking, and said to Shen Xingchun who was standing by the car: "Dachun, in a few days uncle will go to the town to buy new year's goods, and I will call you when the time comes."

Shen Xingchun shook An Yuan on his shoulder, took two steps forward, bent over and said, "Okay, Uncle Li, come and call me when the time comes, I'll go with you."

Uncle Li waved his hands at them, and said while rolling up the car window: "Let's just say that, it's quite cold, hurry up and take the child into the house to sleep."

After Uncle Li drove away, Grandpa Shen looked at An Yuan who was lying on Shen Xingchun's body, and sighed, "The child is crying too much."

An Yuan heard the creaking sound of his feet stepping on the snow, and the cold wind blew on him. He shivered and woke up again. Thinking of his father, he cried softly again, his fingers tightly clutching the clothes around Shen Xingchun's neck. The leader, sobbing and said: "Brother, I can't see my father anymore."

"I'll see you later," Shen Xingchun carried him into the room, "Xiao Yuan'er stopped crying."

Grandma Shen hadn't slept yet, she knew they were back when she heard the dogs barking and footsteps in the yard, opened the curtain at the door and looked out, and heard An Yuan's suppressed crying, she knew the situation was not good, when Grandpa Shen entered house, she quickly asked about the situation.

Grandpa Shen told Grandma Shen about the general situation, and Grandma Shen wiped her tears in distress. She knew that An Yuan was just a father, so she patted An Yuan on the back and said, "Don't cry, my child. I will live at Grandma's house from now on. with my brother."

Grandpa Shen took off his gloves and walked to the stove to warm up, "National Day has already written a letter to his cousin in his hometown, that is, Xiaoyuan's cousin, saying that he will let the child be raised by his cousin. After his cousin receives the letter I will come to pick up Anyuan."

Grandma Shen patted An Yuan's head again, "It's so far away, how slow is the letter, it takes more than ten days to arrive, and two or three days to come by train, the child should spend the new year at our house first. "

An Yuan on Shen Xingchun's shoulder was still crying, he said to grandma: "Grandma, I will carry Xiaoyuan into the house first, if there is any hot water, I will wipe him later."

"I boiled several pots of hot water, and all the water bottles were full," said grandma, "coax my brother well in the spring evening."

Shen Xingchun responded, carried An Yuan into the room, and put him on the edge of the kang, An Yuan let go of Shen Xingchun's neck, his fingers lost strength, and he pawed at the mat on the edge of the kang, his fingertips back and forth on the rough edge of the mat Rubbing, hanging his head, tears were streaming down his face.

Shen Xingchun went to wash him with a towel, and when he came back, he dragged An Yuan's chin with one hand, turned his face up, spread out the steaming towel with the other hand, and wiped his face while wiping Bian coaxed: "Stop crying, crying is uncomfortable, the policeman uncle said, we can write to Dad."

An Yuan sat obediently and asked him to wipe his face, grabbed the kang mat with his fingers, still immersed in his emotions, and murmured: "Father also said that he would take me to Harbin to see ice sculptures, and he said that he would make fried rice cakes and glutinous rice for me during the New Year." Mariko, I will celebrate the last Children's Day next year, and he said he would go to school to watch my performance..."

After Shen Xingchun wiped An Yuan's face, An Yuan suddenly raised his head and looked at Shen Xingchun in a daze, "Brother, after six or seven years, I will no longer be a child. After six or seven years, I will be an adult. Eighteen..."

As An Yuan spoke, a large stream of tears kept falling from his eyes, dripping down his cheeks, dripping onto the collar of his coat, and the sweater collar was wet in a large area.

Shen Xingchun wiped his face again with a towel, and said, "Brother will take you to Harbin to see the ice sculptures, will I celebrate Children's Day next year for you? Don't cry anymore. If you cry again, your face will get cracked. Not nice."

After An Yuan lay down at night, she cried for half the night, and finally fell asleep in the second half of the night. Shen Xingchun was also very tired. She had nightmares all night, and woke up at six o'clock the next day for the first time. An Yuan was still asleep when he woke up, so he didn't call him.

Grandpa went to see the doctor early, and grandma was already up, carrying a bundle of firewood from the yard, ready to light a fire for the stove.

Grandma Shen watched Shen Xingchun come out of the room, and asked him in a low voice: "Did Xiao Yuaner cry a lot last night? What time did you go to bed?"

"I only slept in the middle of the night." Shen Xingchun poured himself a basin of cold water, and washed his face indiscriminately, "I guess the child will not be able to recover from such a serious matter in a while."

"Before Cousin Xiaoyuan'er comes to pick him up, you should spend more time with him, the children have something to say." Grandma Shen said.

Shen Xingchun hastily responded, and opened the curtain to go out. Grandma Shen called him: "It's early in the morning, it's not yet dawn, where are you going?"

"I'll go to Aunt Sun's next door."

Shen Xingchun was just about to step out, when he thought of something, he went to the side room to find a large glass bottle that used to contain glucose, washed it, took it to the room and scalded it in boiling water, turned around and went out again.

Grandma Shen asked him, "What are you doing with the bottle?"

"I'll go to Aunt Sun's house to order a bottle of milk." Shen Xingchun had already left the door, and his voice came in muffled through the door and curtain.

There are a lot of cattle and sheep in the village. Aunt Sun, the neighbor next door, has cows. Shen Xingchun shrank his neck and walked faster and faster. When he arrived, Aunt Sun was milking the cows in the cowshed.

Shen Xingchun entered the yard and walked to the side of the cowshed, and called Aunt Sun who was milking the cows, "Aunt Sun, where are you milking the cows?"

When Aunt Sun heard Shen Xingchun's voice, she said "Hey", turned around and raised her sleeves to wipe the strands of hair covering her eyes, panting heavily, walked to the fence of the cowshed, and asked him: " Dachun, why did you come here so early? I don’t see any smoke coming out of your chimney yet.”

"I just got up, and my grandma is lighting a fire." Shen Xingchun took out the glass bottle in his arms and showed it to Aunt Sun, "Aunt Sun, I want to order milk from your house for a month, probably until the Chinese New Year."

Aunt Sun had a loud voice, and said loudly through the cow fence: "I can't order it. My two children think milk smells bad and don't like to drink it. Your uncle Sun works outside, so I drink it alone. I drink it every day. I vomited, and I still waste a lot of it every day. No one eats the yogurt and milk skins I make. Several neighbors raise cows and sheep, but yours doesn’t. I told your grandma before that I would send some to your house every day. , your grandma said you wouldn’t drink it either.”

"Someone in the family has drunk it now." Shen Xingchun handed the glass bottle to Aunt Sun, "Then Aunt Sun, I will come to get a bottle every morning from now on."

"Come and get it. There's enough milk. The other cow is about to calf. You can't finish it. Later, you can get a few more bottles and let your grandma make some milk tea or boil milk for eating," Aunt Sun said. He took the glass bottle in Shen Xingchun's hand, "Bring it home later and cook it before drinking."

The temperature was low in the morning, and Shen Xingchun was so cold that his chin was shrunk into his scarf, his hands were folded in front of his chest, his palms were inserted into his cuffs, he stomped his feet back and forth on the ground, and said with a wheeze, "Okay, I remembered Aunt Sun. "

Aunt Sun chatted with Shen Xingchun while milking the cow, "When will your parents and your brother come back this year?"

Shen Xingchun stopped and counted the days, and said, "They usually come back around the new year, so they probably have to wait."

Aunt Sun quickly squeezed a bottle, turned around and handed it to Shen Xingchun, "No matter what your parents say when they come back, you don't have to care about it as a child, you don't have to take it to heart, you grew up with your grandparents, as long as you As long as grandpa and grandma treat you well, just go to school and study hard..."

"I know, don't take it to heart." Shen Xingchun took the milk bottle, nodded with his chin tucked into the scarf, "Thank you, Aunt Sun, it's too cold, I'll go back first."

Aunt Sun waved at him, "Hurry up and go back, bring the cork with you when you come tomorrow, don't spill it on the way back and forth."

Shen Xingchun responded, raised his hand and wiped the hoarfrost on his eyelashes with the back of his hand, pulled the scarf around his neck, and covered his face. When he returned, he was afraid that the milk in the bottle would be spilled, so he held it with his last two hands. Holding the milk bottle on his chest, he walked slowly home.

When Shen Xingchun returned, An Yuan had already woken up and was washing up in the hut, it seemed that she was no longer crying.

He put the milk bottle in his hand on the cooking table, walked into the hut and looked at Anyuan, and after he finished wiping his face, he held his chin and lifted it up, looked at it with the bluish-white light outside the window, and finished watching Afterwards, "Ouch", "What beautiful eyes, round and round, now they are swollen like walnuts."

An Yuan blinked. After crying for so long, the next day must be swollen. Now he feels his eyes hurt and dry. He knows that crying is useless, but whenever he thinks about his father, the root of his nose is sore , Tears wrapped one eye socket again.

Shen Xingchun quickly raised his finger and rubbed it against his eyelids, "Xiao Yuaner stop crying, if you cry any more, your eyes will burst from crying."

An Yuan closed his eyes for a while, trying to suppress the soreness. He closed his eyes and felt the coolness on Shen Xingchun's body. Red, the hand holding his chin just now was like ice.

He raised his hand to hold Shen Xingchun's fingers, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Brother, why are your hands so cold? Why did you get up so early today, I didn't even see you when I just woke up."

"I just went out for a while." Shen Xingchun pointed to the milk bottle on the cooking table along the crack of the door, "You've finished your milk, I'll get you some milk in the morning."

An Yuan glanced out along the small door, and he saw the milk bottle. After thinking for a while, he lowered his head and said after a while: "How much is that bottle of milk, brother? Is it expensive?"

"I don't ask for money. The neighbor's cows have a lot of milk." Shen Xingchun said.

An Yuan was a little unbelievable. When he was in his hometown, milk was delivered to the milk box in front of the house every day. His father paid for it once a month. He asked again: "Do you really want money? Brother, I don't need to drink milk. , I have no money with me now..."

Shen Xingchun took his finger out of An Yuan's hand, and flicked it on his forehead, "I don't need your money, Xiao Yuan can drink it all the time, drink milk to grow taller, don't you want to grow taller?"

An Yuan frowned, and said seriously: "I think, brother, I want to grow up quickly, I think I can grow up to six or seven years in one fell swoop, then I can see my father..."