pistachio
Text/Shi Qinghua
The unlocking sound of "Beep, Beep, Tick" sounded, and the grandson who was sitting on the plastic mat with me immediately got up, and the fat white floral cotton jacket on a blue background shook and ran to the door, "Oh hehe" and smiled: "Mom." "Well, Shi Chaojing, hello." Casually put the bag in the closet, bent down to pick up his son, and the two smiling faces were pasted together.
When Bai Yun and his daughter-in-law were arranging the dishes and chopsticks, the sound of unlocking the lock sounded again, and the grandson ran to the door again, "Hehehe" smiled, and sweetly shouted: "Daddy." Dad also reenacts Mom's story.
Maybe I just went to work after the Spring Festival and wasn't so busy. In the evening, the son and daughter-in-law all left work early, and the family of five people divided their work after eating: I played with my grandson, the others cleaned up the dishes, mopped the floor, washed, and the division of labor and cooperation was quickly cleaned, and they all sat on the sofa watching TV, playing games, eating nuts, tasting pastries, and tasting green tea. The one-and-a-half-year-old grandson was kept out of these things, which was very unhappy.
He first ran to his mother and stood, looking at his mother's chewing mouth, and then held his mother's legs in both hands and shook it vigorously: "Mom, I want to eat." "You can't eat these things yet, wait a while for your mother to give you a small steamed bun to eat, and your mother believes that you are an obedient and obedient child." Shi Chaojing looked at his mother for a while, it seemed that there was no hope, so he smiled and went to hug his father and grandfather's legs and shouted with a smile: "Daddy" and "Grandpa". But he didn't say", maybe he knew that we all understood this meaning, and Dad and Grandpa just smiled and didn't act, and the result was a little disappointed. He ran to Grandma again and crawled on Grandma's lap and sat down: "Grandma." Grandma picked up and kissed her bulging, red-beeping little face: "They can't eat for you, Grandma will give you food." "Mom, don't give Shi Zhaojing to eat, I'm afraid he won't chew and choke on nuts, it's not easy to digest, and the pastries are a little sweet and can't be eaten." "Okay." Shi Chaojing may have heard the words of his mother and grandmother, and constantly protested with shouts of "I want to eat". Everyone just smiled at him, and he continued to protest after laughing " he"
No matter how he protested, he didn't give him food, but he still didn't cry, so he had to turn around in front of everyone, screaming and laughing. When he turned to me again, he fed a little nut crumb into his mouth, and his upper and lower lips were closed, and his cheeks were gently moved, and he ate it with relish, which seemed to be the best delicacy in the world. After eating, he smiled and said, "I still want to eat." Mom's attitude was resolute: "Don't give." ”
I went to the side of the couch to play chess, and my grandson saw the chess on the tablet and shouted, "Grandpa, chess." "Correct, it's chess." Bai Yun said to his daughter-in-law, "Give him a lick." The grandson's mother nodded, and the grandson immediately shouted, "Lick, lick." "It's okay to lick it, but you have to answer your mother's questions and get it right." "Okay." "What are you Mom and Dad for?" Although I usually told it, I don't think he could answer it, and I guessed that my daughter-in-law was setting up obstacles. "Son." "What are you grandparents for?" "Grandson." "The answer is correct, mom gives you a thumbs up." After saying that, he gave a thumbs up and shook it in front of Shi Chaojing, he smiled slightly, and the smile that was formed by the red halo rotation was definitely the sweetest, purest and most beautiful. Everyone also took turns to give him a little nut crumb in the laughter, because it was too small to be picked up by hand, so it was fed directly into his mouth. He is like a small bird receiving the feeding of a big bird: open his mouth wide, revealing a mouth full of white teeth, once the nut crumbs are fed, he stretches his mouth forward vigorously, and the sharp mouth follows the nut crumbs, for fear of falling to the ground, sometimes even the fingers of the feeder bite and refuse to let go, until "Shi Chaojing, you bite my finger." "That's how we let go.
I wanted to test my grandson, so I deliberately shouted: "Shi Chaojing, get some pistachios for Grandpa." The daughter-in-law objected: "Dad, he will not take it, he will eat it himself." The grandson seemed to understand his mother's words: "Bring it, give it to Grandpa." "Give him a try, we'll see."
Everyone let go of the hand that was guarding the nut box: "Give Grandpa a few." He put his chubby little hand into the box, grabbed three pistachios in one handful, and staggered toward me on the plastic mat, while the rest of the people looked at him. Without taking a few steps, he suddenly bent over the long table under the TV, released his right hand, and squeezed a pistachio with two fingers of his left hand and sent it to his mouth. But before I could enter it, I took it in my hand, and at the same time I took the other two pistachios in my right hand. While eating, I gave him crumbs and said, "Shi Chaojing, you are a child now, and there are some things that adults can eat that children can't eat." You see that when Grandpa can drink when eating, you can't drink, and the stipulation is given to Grandpa, and you have to give it to Grandpa. ”
Bai Yun also wanted to test whether what I had just said was understood by him and whether it worked. "Shi Chaojing, get another pistachio for Grandpa, but you can't eat it." The grandson smiled at his grandmother and happily agreed, "Good." He picked up a pistachio and took a few steps to stuff it into his mouth, "Hey, Shi Chaojing, you can't eat it." ”
He quickly took the pistachio out of his mouth and smiled at everyone, and everyone looked at him and laughed: It's really our family's pistachio.
(February 8, 2022)
【About the author】Shi Qinghua (male), a teacher at Xiangqun Middle School in Gong'an County. Born from a humble background, I had the privilege of growing up, but the years were staggering, and I achieved nothing, so I had to work diligently and be a down-to-earth person. No ambition, socializing with civilians, sour, sweet and bitter, clutching sorrow and joy, penetrating into the heart. However, I hope that he will awaken and strive to be self-motivated. Seek your own welfare and be loyal to your country. Talk about civilian affairs and share human feelings.