Two cents of despair

Grandma Li slowly propped herself up from the bed, pulled the worn-out pillow cushion on the back of the back, leaned on the bed to rest for a while, the sun had climbed to the threshold, it was estimated that it was almost lunchtime, she felt a little mental today.

Grandma Li has been cold for four or five days, and the last two days of dripping rice have not entered, and she feels that she may not be able to survive and is going to accompany her wife.

"I actually feel so much better today, maybe God doesn't want to take me, let me stay up for a few more years!" 」 Grandma Li thought darkly.

"Lotus white, two cents a piece, two cents a piece, want, come and buy it, otherwise it will be gone in a while..." Outside I don't know whose family has entered vegetables from the city to sell in the village.

It is winter, there are almost no vegetables to eat in the village, there is a flexible brain, just from the city to enter the vegetables back to sell, there are many people in the village with good conditions, this business is still done.

Grandma Li, who had not entered the rice drops for two days, suddenly felt very eager to drink the sweet light boiled lotus white soup.

"If you make a bowl of rice with light lotus white soup and eat it, you should be able to eat it." Grandma Li thought, so she slowly moved out of bed and walked toward the door.

Grandma Li is 68 years old this year, her wife is five years older than her, and last year she had a common cold, so she dragged it and went.

She had three sons and two daughters, the younger daughter went out to work, ran away with a provincial person, and only came back to see them with her grandson three years later, and only came back once a year.

The eldest daughter is married close and filial, and will come back from time to time to wash their clothes and buy them something to bring. Unfortunately, a few years ago, the eldest son-in-law had an accident and collapsed on the bed, and the eldest daughter's family collapsed at once, and the eldest daughter had no time and no economy to take care of them.

Although the three sons did not have a good life in the village, they were not the worst conditions, but the three sons were less filial to each other than the other.

Grandma Li's wife had a cold, and at the beginning, as long as she prescribed him some ordinary medicine or took something nutritious, she should be able to survive. But Grandma Li and her wife did not have a penny in their hands, three sons you push me, I push you, no one goes to buy medicine, eat will be casually light soup fresh water to give points, the wife finally dragged into pneumonia, just go.

After his wife left, Grandma Li's life was even more difficult, when his wife was there, he could still do farm work, there were two plots of land near the house, they planted some vegetables, planted some brown rice, potatoes or something, and could barely make ends meet.

After her wife left, Grandma Li's health was not very good, plus she was a small-footed old man, unable to farm. The three sons discussed taking turns to give her food, eating almost nothing, and often being dumped by their daughter-in-law.

Grandma Li dragged her floating body with a cane to the door with difficulty, and when she saw her eldest son standing at his door, and her second daughter-in-law crouching at the foot of the tree in front of the door to choose vegetables, she shouted the name of her eldest son.

The eldest son turned to see her, walked over and said, "Mom, how did you get up?" Is it better? We've finished eating, you wait a minute, I'll go scoop up the bowl of rice for you. "Today it is the turn of the eldest son's family to deliver food.

Grandma Li nodded and said, "Today I feel much better, I just heard someone in the back selling lotus white, two cents a piece, you go buy one for me to cook a bowl of light lotus white soup to eat!" ”

The eldest son hesitated, and just as he was about to turn around, the eldest daughter-in-law who was washing dishes in the house coughed violently.

The eldest son then turned to Grandma Li and said that he didn't have any money today, and he could buy it another day, and when he finished speaking, he didn't wait for a reply, so he quickly turned around and went back to the house.

Grandma Li hesitated, looked at the second daughter-in-law, she just called out the name of the second daughter-in-law, the second daughter-in-law threw the dish in her hand to the ground, and said: "Oh! Mom, don't say two cents, I don't have a penny, your grandson still wants to eat it! But there's no money to buy it! Today, the big brother's family is in charge of your meal! After saying that, he grabbed the dishes on the ground and went back to the house, and closed the door.

Grandma Li stood in the empty courtyard with a cane, her legs and feet trembling.

"Fresh lotus white, two cents a piece, want to hurry up, almost gone..." The shouting continued.

I don't know why, Grandma Li felt that she very much wanted to drink that light lotus white soup today.

She trembled and walked to the door of her younger son's house, the door of the younger son's house was closed, she patted the door while saying: "Three children, two cents a lotus white, you go to buy one..."

Grandma Li hasn't finished talking yet! The younger son didn't even open the door and yelled in the house, "What to eat, eat?" Where you want to eat, hit back. ”

Grandma Li stood in front of her young son's house for a while, and slowly moved back to her room with her body hunched over.

The next day, the weather changed, overcast, with a little bit of rain.

At noon, a grandmother who lived in the back row of Grandma Li's house came to photograph Grandma Li's door, and this grandmother usually had to be good with Grandma Li and would often chat with each other.

This grandmother was holding a bowl of light lotus white soup in her hand, and while tapping on the door, she called Out Grandma Li's nickname and said, "You have a cold these days, you must have a bitter mouth, I will bring you a bowl of light lotus white..."

The grandmother patted the door for a long time without moving, and as she turned and walked away, she said to herself, "Is it out?" Wrong! I've been at home this morning and haven't seen her out! ”

The grandmother turned around again and pushed Grandma Li's door.

"Squeak" and the door opened.

With a "whoosh" sound, the bowl in the grandmother's hand fell to the ground and shattered.

Inside the house, Grandma Li changed into a cleanly washed dress with few patches and hung quietly on the beam.

The bowl of rice sent by the eldest son yesterday was placed on the table unsealed.

Grandma Li walked away so desperately, the drip rice had not entered two days before, and when she left, the drip rice still did not enter.

@Soft Story Club:

This is a true story, when I was in high school, what happened in my grandmother's village. I remember going to my uncle's house that holiday, when I heard about it, I felt uncomfortable in my heart, it was really... I still feel the same way!

There is a saying: poverty limits imagination, in fact, the rich also limit imagination, rich people may not be able to imagine this kind of two-cent despair!