Before dinner I burned the ground outside the courtyard to keep my place from being flooded with weeds.
As night fell and the lights came on, I came back from the ground sweating and sat breathlessly at the dinner table. The granddaughter had already eaten dinner at the urging of their mother, Grandma, and was running around the courtyard to escape the punishment of bathing.
I saw the joy of the child, the anxiety of the daughter, and the helplessness of the wife in the fatigue, and I was shocked. In just a few months, we have brought a well-organized child in the city into a wild boy running around in the countryside. Good and bad. Just like the young Lu Xun was so happy and wild in the Hundred Grass Garden, he had to return to the Sanwei Bookstore and have to be generally adjusted again. Grandma's chicken coop and Grandpa's fruit tree can never be remembered. However, the cradle of the net pocket that was shaking between the two trees was afraid that it would not be forgotten for a while and a half. That's what I prepared for my children and grandchildren to go back to their hometown for a vacation, like a swing, like a lazy bed, more like a grandmother's boat! The children were all scrambling to sit, and my grandchildren who had returned from the city, as well as the children of the neighbors, were also fighting over it. It's a lot of fun. It was a highland of freedom, something that had to be occupied, just right for their shaky years and their undulating hearts, swaying their childhood dreams.
Dinner is still a drink of the self, and there is no distraction or clutter. The low evening clouds drift by in the west, and under the reflection of the city lights in the distance, the conflict, the change, the first night at the turn of summer and autumn, in my eyes is also like the cradle between the two trees, swayed by the children, leisurely, comfortable, and occasionally clashing. Suddenly, I thought that my daughter's time to save her relatives was not short, her children were going to school, they had to go back to their city, the boat-like basket had to be idle again, and I felt some regrets in addition to exhaustion. Jing said to himself: "Shake, shake, shake to Grandma's Bridge", this nursery rhyme is poetic, but what does it mean? Is it Jiangnan Water Town, is it a small bridge flowing water? Are it the laughter, songs and fairy tales of young women and young children? Is the boat bending the bridge bending the moon bending? Is it Grandma's smiling face and nagging or Grandma's basket of little hens? Yes, and not all. That is family affection, it is a return, it is the pursuit of childhood, it is the continuation of life, it is the search for a warm pulse, it is the joy and happiness of the beginning of man...
The old bridge in front of Grandma's house is still there, the small bridge flowing water boat shadow young women and children and laughter and singing are all there, the old bridge called Grandma Bridge is gone, the flow of water flows naturally, I am afraid that the boat is no longer burdened to the people who go to Grandma's Bridge.
When I think about it, I am a little confused. He whispered to my wife who was watching me drinking with me, and said, "Our family's net-pocket hammock hanging from the tree is like a small boat, isn't it?" Do you see it like a boat in the hearts of daughters and grandchildren? Don't look at the fact that there is no flowing water and no small bridge in front of our house, but this small courtyard is their grandmother's bridge. With you and me, then you can let your daughters and grandchildren: shake, shake, shake to grandma's bridge. Really live well, don't let the juniors row in the boat and can't find Grandma's Bridge. ”
My wife listened, confused, as if she understood, and didn't know whether I was talking about wine or very tired. With something in her mouth, she turned her face indifferently and stared at the little hens in her chicken coop. Nagging and reading, there are a few, all of them must be killed, bring them to the daughter, let the grandchildren return to the city and eat this country chicken, how good.
"Shake, shake, shake to Grandma's Bridge." Grandma's cradle hanging between two trees, like a small boat, let the grandchildren shake under Grandma's bridge, Grandma's chicken coop is like a gentle nest, is another indispensable object of Grandma's Bridge, it is warm and comfortable, ordinary and rich, the source of life, the place of life, the indispensable passage of childhood life. But what did Grandma think? What kind of grandmother bridge should the children's hearts look like? I don't know, and even more so my aging grandmother. Only Grandma's daughter and Grandma's granddaughter and grandson will know it! However, they only know: shake, shake, shake to Grandma's Bridge!
August 11, 2021 in Hainan
☆ About the author: Luo Huazhong, 73 years old, a member of the Communist Party of China, a retired soldier, a native of Wanning City, Hainan Province, former commander of the 1st Company of a battalion of a regiment of the army, battalion commander and logistics director of the second battalion of a certain marine brigade of the Navy, deputy brigade commander of the army brigade, and lieutenant colonel of the navy, transferred to the former Standing Committee of the Danzhou Municipal Party Committee, secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of The former Danzhou Municipal Committee of Hainan Province, secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, deputy secretary of the Ding'an County Cpc Committee of Hainan Province, director of the Standing Committee of the County People's Congress, secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee of the Supply and Marketing Society of Hainan Province, deputy director and deputy inspector of the Hainan Provincial Supply and Marketing Society.
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