Xie Sicheng: Grandma's down jacket

Author: Chengdu Experimental Foreign Chinese School High 2020 Class 12 Xie Sicheng

After Grandpa died, my mother took My Grandmother from the old house and lived with us.

When I first arrived, My grandmother was like an old tree that had been transplanted, its leaves had lost moisture and she was listless all day. But she quickly recovered, went to the market alone to buy vegetables, and exercised and chatted with the mother-in-law in the community. She knew where restaurants were open nearby and which supermarket had cheap milk.

Because of the hardships she suffered in her youth, my grandmother had an almost mean frugality. She always ate very little food, saying that she could not digest it when she was older, but when she heard that she was going to dump the leftovers, she ate all the dishes. The courier was received at home, and we threw the box in the trash. Who knows after a while, she picked it up again, neatly stacked in the aisle. Watching TV at night, she never turned on the lights, we helped her turn it on, and she quickly turned it off again. She often turned the faucet into a thin line and used a basin to receive water. We always closed it for her when we found out, but late at night there was a "ticking" sound of water dripping in the kitchen.

Although she herself is very frugal, she is very generous to others. Every year during the Spring Festival, hundreds of red envelopes are sealed for each of the juniors. In the new semester, we will give red envelopes to our grandchildren, touch our heads kindly, and advise us to study well. During the "Double Eleven" period, my mother bought a discounted down jacket for my grandmother online. Grandma tried it on, and everyone said it looked good. But as soon as she heard that she had spent two hundred yuan, she immediately became too expensive and asked her mother to quickly return. The mother said it was discounted and could not be refunded. Her mother did not tell her the real price, the original price of the dress was more than two thousand, but it actually cost eight hundred yuan.

After a few days, Grandma finally accepted the reality and put on a new down jacket and walked around the neighborhood. Everyone said that this was a new dress bought by my woman, and it cost two hundred. An old woman took a fancy to the dress and asked her to buy one. Grandma was glad to come back and tell my mother. The mother looked stunned and said that the event was over and could not be bought, so she was not allowed to take care of it.

The next day, Grandma put on her old clothes and went out, and when she came back, she happily gave two hundred yuan to her mother, saying that she had transferred the clothes to her sisters. The mother was very angry and counted her down, asking her to return her clothes. Grandma is also very stubborn, insisting on giving can not regret. The mother had no choice but to talk to her grandmother. Grandma read the weather forecast and trotted over to tell my mother how many degrees tomorrow. The mother did not say a word, only bowed her head and did her thing.

The Cold War lasted a week or two. One day, when my mother and I came home from make-up classes, I saw the window of my room open. I was strange because it was cold and the windows were always closed. I opened the door and found a smell of paste in the kitchen, and the dishes in the pot were already scorched. The mother quickly turned off the fire and shouted into the house, "Mom! Grandma ran out of my room with some surprise and some panic, only to find that the pot was burned.

The mother was again counted down, and the grandmother was like a child who had done something wrong, bowing her head and not speaking. It turned out that Grandma watched us leave by the window every day, waiting for us to come back. We came back late today, and she waited a little longer, forgetting that the kitchen fire was still burning. The mother seemed to be somewhat touched. She was the same, standing by the window every day to watch me go to school, standing by the window waiting for me to come home from school. In her grandmother, she saw her own shadow. Remembering everything that had happened in the past few days, she suddenly had some regrets and some self-blame.

The next day, my mother bought my grandmother a new down jacket. This time, she wouldn't tell her the price.

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