Past Essay (Part 1) 丨High-dementia, she was once the most shining person in my life

One

She was sick.

The doctor said she had Alzheimer's disease, which is what we often call Alzheimer's disease. She was 65 years old.

The moment she came out of the office, her eyes were full of surprise and trepidation. She couldn't understand the doctor's nagging terms, but she understood "dementia."

Grandpa frowned at the side, and his hand involuntarily touched the cigarette in his pocket.

"Don't think about it, you're all right." Smoke came out of his mouth and seemed to cover the whole sky.

She didn't make a sound, she held her lips, and only after half a day did she jump out a few words, "The child is out of school at 6 o'clock, it's time to go grocery shopping." ”

I was 15 years old. Unlike others, they said that the first thing I said was "Grandma", but I can't remember exactly.

I only know that when I first started kindergarten, she rode a blue tricycle to take me and my cousin to report. Maybe the kindergarten toys were so appealing, my cousin and I didn't cry, but her eyes were red.

When we were in the second grade, my cousin and I let the fat boys in the class bully us. I'm ashamed to say that two people can't beat one of them. Later, she insisted on apologizing to the boy in front of the other parent's head. Thinking of her at that time, she was really majestic.

She also loves sugar and bought a lot of red shrimp crisps and orange petals in the West Wing of the old courtyard. When we were sent to school, we were given one piece each. Listening to her humming little songs, huddled in a small tricycle, my cousin and I spent several summers like this.

Later, as we grew bigger and bigger, longer and wider, the blue tricycle seemed to no longer fit me and my cousin.

Since then, I've often asked her, "Milk, what's going brother monkey?" Brother Monkey is the nickname I gave to my cousin, because I think he looks a bit like Qi Tian Dasheng.

"Your aunt lives far away, I am now convenient with him, you two are still good together." I felt in her dim eyes that my cousin seemed like he would never go away.

Actually, I don't hate my cousin. It's just that when the two of us argue over some small things, she will talk to her cousin, and even make my parents believe that it is my fault for various reasons. I don't understand, and I feel even more aggrieved.

"If he has his own home, can't he let his aunt pick him up?" That time I didn't hold back and shouted in front of the whole family. Unexpectedly, she brushed like a changed person, grabbed my arm, and squeezed it hard.

"No, I said no, I can't!" She repeated the words repeatedly, and her face was uneasy and flustered that I had never seen before.

I was so frightened that I never dared to say such a thing again.

Two

Listening to my grandfather, my aunt was the first college student in our family and the first in the village. On the day the acceptance letter came down, the aunt was the first to tell the good news to grandma.

As soon as they were happy, they slaughtered all the chickens in the house and celebrated.

A week later, Grandma carried a large bag of daily necessities and traveled with her aunt from her hometown in Tongxian County for more than 3 hours to beijing technology and business school to report. It wasn't Grandma's first time in town. When she was starving 20 years ago, when she caught up with the city to recruit workers, she and her aunt went to the bus no. 4 factory as a flight attendant.

The car she ran was called No. 27, from Puhuangyu outside Yongding Gate to Xiaoguan North Station outside Andingmen Gate. Every day, I shouted and sold tickets, and this work was done for two years.

The aunt said that she was under the impression that she was a quick temper, but she had never seen her argue with the passengers, and she had a good reputation in the fourth factory.

Later, the eldest aunt and another bus driver of the fourth factory went to the object and successfully transferred the household registration. However, her hukou was not solved, and the company's new policy could not keep the farmers, so she returned to her hometown to work in the production team.

It was also in the production team that Grandpa and Grandma formed a fate.

Three

Grandpa would do handlebar style in the team. Just in time for the good business of the fourth wooden machine factory and the distillery in his hometown, his large convoy was mainly responsible for transporting the yangchang machine and the second pot head.

He said he still remembered the taste of the two pots. Pure sorghum wine, high degree, choking, but real. Unlike today's liquor, it is all blended.

The treatment of catching a big car is also good. In the team, he can count 10 work points every day, and the additional subsidy is 1 yuan and a pound of food stamps. If you spend the night outside, you will add fifty cents and half a pound of food stamps each.

After my grandmother returned, she was assigned to work in the village-run flour mill, making sweet potato noodles and sweet potato noodles. It would be a rural area where electricity often went out during the day and recovered infrequently at night, so the powder mills almost all worked at night, which was very hard.

But these hardships are eventually diluted by love.

Their initial relationship didn't go well. Grandma's grandfather was a police captain during the Republic of China period, and my grandfather served as a high-ranking official in Chiang Kai-shek's government. Even if it falls later, the bottom of the family is still thick.

Grandma's education level is also high, and in that backward village where there is generally no education, she insists on finishing junior high school before going to farming.

At this time, grandpa, who only read about gao xiao, was still worried about half a tile. That will pay attention to the door to the right, this fate almost interrupted the thoughts in the opposition of the parents.

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