all the mornings

Chapter 38 Little Yu (1)
The next day was New Year's Eve, Li Sichuan got up early, planning to buy some new year's goods.Since it is impossible to celebrate the New Year in the countryside with the slaughter of pigs and sheep, some New Year dishes should be prepared at home.After he came back, he gave his aunts and nanny leave and asked them to go home early for the New Year. All the big and small things in the family were covered by him.

After he changed his clothes, he was in the kitchen making breakfast for the two mothers and daughters, when he heard the phone ring, and when he answered it, it was Jin Yan.

Li Sichuan immediately became vigilant.What could make Uncle Xiaoyu call?He dare not be careless.But it's late, they haven't gone back yet, and they don't have this plan, and they don't make any phone calls. It sounds really outrageous, so they hurriedly said: "Happy New Year, uncle, call to ask us to go home for the New Year? Xiaoyu is sick , I can’t get out of bed for the time being, I will pretend to be a nurse every day, serve her to take medicine and drink water, and when she gets better we..."

Without waiting for his excuse to finish, Jin Yan said, "Xiaoyu's grandmother passed away last night."

Li Sichuan was taken aback, and asked, "When did it happen?"

"I left at 35:[-] a.m. today, with heart failure after an acute myocardial infarction. In the evening, the family had a banquet for the last tooth, and she drank two glasses of wine. She fell ill at night and was sent to the emergency room immediately. Xiao Yu's father also Now, when I was with the hospital, I said that I would call Xiao Yu to come back to see Grandma for the last time. The person passed away as soon as I finished speaking. The doctor signed the death notice, and Xiao Yu's father said that he would call again, and I said No need, it's in the middle of the night, don't wake up Xiaoyu to rest, tell her tomorrow morning. Xiaoyu's father also agreed, so I'm calling now." Jin Yan said calmly.

Li Sichuan said "Oops" and scolded himself for being damned, he shouldn't have said those nonsense before, so what does it mean for his uncle to listen to him.

"I'll book a plane ticket right away. Xiaoyu is really sick. The night before yesterday, she had a fever of 38 degrees. I was terrified at the time. I took the medicine and suppressed it, and my body has not been strong for the past two days."

"Have you seen a doctor?" Jin Yan became worried after hearing this, and asked, "How is it now?"

"I've seen it, and I've hung up the water for a long time. Don't worry, I will take good care of her." Xiaoyu actually just has a bad cold, so he said it more seriously, so as not to be unhappy over there.It is certain to go back now, he is here to give a warning first, so that the people from the Yu family will not bother him.

As the saying goes, "A gentleman can be bullied by the right way." Sure enough, after hearing this, Jin Yan said, "Then come back two days later, and you will be buried here after the first seven days. You can tell Xiao Yu when she is better." she."

Li Sichuan said: "Okay, it's okay, I'll say it well, it won't scare her, then that's it, hang up, uncle, please forgive me."

He put down the phone and remembered what happened last night.At the time when she was tossing and turning in her dreams, it was when Grandma was leaving, and her mother took her to see Grandma, and she had to take a sloping road.There are a few people on the road that scare her.What are the identities of those unfamiliar people? Looking at it now, it is natural to understand that they are the guides, so her mother is not afraid at all.And she knew that the road ahead was dangerous, so she hid in a small room, which must symbolize their marriage.Their marriage had given her a place of refuge, and the shadow of death wanted to close her mind.She was sober this time and knew she was going to come back, to go back to him.

The symbolic meaning of the cocoon is not only self-enclosed, but also the meaning of breaking the cocoon.If one's own ability is strong enough and the will is firm enough, one will definitely grow wings and be reborn.Li Sichuan believes Xiaoyu can do it.

Her illness this time is also a kind of replacement.

She and Grandma always have some kind of telepathy.She used to be Mamaw's medium, and Mamaw was her mentor.Although she no longer has contact with her hometown after getting married, the blood relationship is unbroken.

How should I tell her?Li Sichuan felt a little troubled.

Li Sichuan was cooking porridge in the kitchen, and suddenly remembered that he came back from Jinjiang more than a month ago, and told Xiaoyu about his grandmother in her 90s to gain her sympathy.Of course, he never thought that Xiao Yu's grandmother would also face the problem of death.In terms of age, grandma is less than 80 years old, more than ten years younger than his grandma, but she is ahead of her.

I don't know how Xiaoyu will react when he hears the bad news?Li Sichuan really felt sorry for Xiao Yu.

He slowly stirred the porridge, writing the manuscript.Xiao Yu once said that the porridge needs to be stirred more to taste better, and she likes to eat thin porridge that is soft without rice grains.Once she thought the porridge was too thick, no different from rotten rice, Li Sichuan yawned for a while, and said sarcastically, "You can drink rice soup." He forgot the meat and bone porridge she had taken him to eat. It is delicious like no other in the world.

The current Li Sichuan is no longer Wuxia Ameng, he got up early to cook porridge for her, and put a little dried scallops and shredded mushrooms in the porridge——Xiaoyu grew up by the sea, her taste is light, and her favorite is fresh sweet food.

The porridge was fragrant in the pot, the rice particles had melted into shape, the porridge with mushrooms and scallops showed a perfect posture after careful cooking, but Li Sichuan's stomach draft was still not finished.

Just thinking about it, Xiao Yu came over, wearing pajamas.She wore a thick shawl in fear of the cold, wrapping her narrow shoulders, making her look even more vulnerable.She walked to Li Sichuan's side, leaned against him and asked, "What are you doing, it smells so good?"

"Mushroom and scallop porridge. Didn't you say that your mouth is bitter and you want to eat something fresh?" Li Sichuan said, lowering his head and kissing her face, "Why do you wake up so early? It's not even six o'clock. Look at the baby The baby didn’t get up yet, she usually wakes me up. This child rose at sunrise, did he farm in his previous life?” He laughed as he spoke, “Originally I used to sleep naked, so I quit because of her. Yes. Well, do you feel better?"

"It's much better, look," Xiao Yu pressed her forehead against his cheek, "the burn is gone."

"Well, I'm in good spirits, and my complexion is much better. But let's rest. Go back and lie down, and I'll bring you the porridge."

"No, I'll just eat here. Why do you get up so early?" Xiaoyu sat down, propped her head on her hands, looked at Li Sichuan, and said with a smile, "either a farmer or a fisherman. We girls from Jinjiang They are all so hardworking.”

Xiaoyu seemed to be recovering from illness, so she was quite interested in joking with him, and chanted in the dialect of her hometown: "In the daytime, I need someone to take care of me; gone."

Li Sichuan laughed, "No one sees it, it's in the back kitchen. The porridge is ready early in the morning, our men in Beijing are so honest." He filled two bowls of porridge, sat down to eat with Xiaoyu, and waited for her to eat When it was over, he put down his spoon and said, "Xiaoyu, it seems that we will not be able to pass through Yumen Pass."

Xiao Yu ate a bowl of hot porridge, and the hot porridge fell into her stomach, and the heat spread to her hands and feet, warming her face all the way.Li Sichuan looked at his wife, whose skin was as jade-like as spring dawn, and couldn't help but put his hands on her face.Xiao Yu tilted her head, put her face on the palm of his hand, looked at him, and said, "Because I'm sick? Then it will be better in two days. After the first day of the new year, there will be fewer people on the road."

"It's not because you're sick. I mean you can't go to Yumen Pass. It's not that you can't go on the road." Li Sichuan lovingly twirled her earlobe, "This time you are going to be on the road with illness, we need to go back to Jinjiang."

"What happened?" Hearing what he said, the tenderness in Xiao Yu's eyes faded halfway, but she was still able to ask calmly.

"Your uncle called just now, saying that your grandma went away after two o'clock last night, suffering from acute myocardial infarction." Li Sichuan had lost all the manuscripts he had typed for so long, and Xiao Yu's face turned pale for a moment, It was as if the blood had suddenly disappeared from the veins, and the previously warm jade-like face became carved out of marble.He cried out worriedly: "Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu?"

Xiao Yu watched him not speak, and the sadness in her eyes slowly gathered into tears.She blinked and blinked a stream of tears, "I see, you book tickets, I always want to go back."

"Xiaoyu, I think we'll wait for two more days before you go when you feel better? You said just now that there will be fewer people on the first day of the new year, and there won't be so many people on the airport and the plane. I don't know if I book a ticket now. No. Book today for tomorrow, and it will be the most crowded on New Year's Eve." Li Sichuan persuaded, wondering if she could leave immediately.

"How can there be any reason to keep the elderly waiting? If you book business class, you can sleep on the plane. Si Chuan, I'm really unfilial. Even if I don't get along with my father and don't want to go back, I shouldn't let grandma go alone. After my mother is gone, I was brought up by her." Xiao Yu closed her eyes with a pained expression on her face.

Li Sichuan felt like cursing.He just wanted to say, "Not filial? Did your grandma treat you well from the perspective of what is really for you? She just uses you as her living sign. In the United States, that is abuse, and you can go to children. The Welfare Bureau called the police. The days when you and Grandma were together was like a story about Grandma Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood."

He suppressed the anger in his heart, and said softly: "I don't care about this day and a half. Uncle also said just now that the burial will always take place after the first seven days. You are half a day early and half a day late, and the same thing is done over there, but you rest for an extra night. , much better."

"My heart is suffering, and I can't rest well." Xiao Yu shook her head and said, "You let me lie on the bed for two days, didn't you put me on the fire? You know that I can't sleep because of something on my mind, but it's just all night and all night insomnia."

Of course Li Sichuan knew that she suffered from insomnia, and knew in his heart that what she said was right, but he still pitied her.He held her shoulders tightly against his chest and kissed her cheek. "Then I should tell you the day after tomorrow."

Xiao Yu raised her head and smiled faintly at him, "You can't hide your words."

Only Xiao Yu would say that about him. In the eyes of outsiders, Li Sichuan is a city man.

"I've been hiding too many things from you." Li Sichuan thought.

This time around, uncle, Xiao Yu's father, Yu Xiang, and Le Er, everyone will tell the story about his visit to Jinjiang on New Year's Day, and it will inevitably make Xiao Yu unhappy.But let's talk about the matter at that time, he really doesn't want to put extra pressure on Xiaoyu at the moment.

"Go and lie down for a while, and get back to sleep. I'll pack up the place and book tickets, and I'll pack up the luggage. Anyway, we'll stay at your hotel when we go back, and everything is ready-made. Do you have anything you want to bring with you?" ?”

Xiao Yu shook her head, "I listen to you."

Li Sichuan helped Xiaoyu go back to lie down, covered the quilt, drew the curtains tightly, and sat beside the bed holding her hand to accompany her to sit quietly.Xiao Yu said in a low voice: "Leave me alone, I won't be able to fall asleep right away. Go and see Yingying, she should wake up."

Li Sichuan said yes, turned off the light, closed the bedroom door, and went to see Yingying.

Sure enough, Yingying was already awake, babbling on the bed and singing some song, seeing him go in, Xiao Yuan smiled and said, "Dad, I didn't call Mom today, did I?"

"Yes. Guaibao memorized every word my father said. Dad said that my mother was sick and had to rest, so Guaibao played by herself. Do you remember?"

"Well. Then can I see a doctor for my mother today?"

Li Sichuan dressed her, looked at her looking forward to it, and asked with a smile: "When the baby grows up, do you really want to be a doctor?"

"When I grow up, I will really see a doctor for my mother. Now it's a fake." Yingying's face emerged from the neckline of the sweater, and the soft hair stuck to his face.Li Sichuan pushed her hair back from her face, heard her say "fake", couldn't help laughing again, "Yingying also knows it's fake."

"Well, Luo Yi in our class told me that he wanted to marry me, and I know it's a lie." Yingying said.

Li Sichuan was stunned by the news, he was speechless for a long time, cleared his throat and asked, "How did you know?"

"He, he told Chen Juanjuan last time. Chen Juanjuan and I are good friends. He...not good. "

Obviously Yingying didn't know how to express her dissatisfaction, Li Sichuan tried to say what she wanted to say. "Some things can't be shared with good friends, right?"

Yingying thought for a while and said: "Chen Juanjuan pushed me, she doesn't want to be friends with me anymore, she and Dong Tiantian are good friends. Dad, I don't like Luo Yi, I like playing with Chen Juanjuan."

"I understand. Luo Yi caused a rift in the friendship between you and Chen Juanjuan. In order to express her displeasure, Chen Juanjuan turned to be friends with Dong Tiantian. You lost your good friend Chen Juanjuan, so you don't like Luo Yi. Then Dad asked , before Chen Juanjuan pushed you, ignored you, and became friends with Dong Tiantian, did you like Luo Yi?"

After getting dressed, Yingying jumped up on the bed twice and said, "Daddy, I want to pee."

Li Sichuan had no choice but to carry her out of bed, put on her shoes for her, and lead her to the bathroom.After she finished hushing, she pressed the flush button before going in and sitting on the side, watching her squeeze toothpaste slowly, brush her teeth, rinse her mouth, wash her face and comb her hair in a serious manner.Her hair is childlike, with bangs in front of her eyebrows, and hair hanging down her shoulders in the back. She took a small comb and combed it decently, and said to Li Sichuan: "I used to like it, but now I don't like it."

Li Sichuan murmured: "In the past, you have a past. Let's go, woman in love, your father will serve you for breakfast. Do I have to worry about this from now on?"

"What does daddy have for breakfast? Do you want to send it to mom?" the little woman in love asked.

"Mushroom and scallop porridge, my mother has eaten it before." Li Sichuan put a small bowl of warm porridge for his daughter, then gave her a spoon, and watched her pour it into her mouth one by one without spilling a little. The lady was full of style, and she muttered: "The two women in the family are both hurting their feelings."

While the baby was having breakfast, he tidied up the kitchen.After she finished eating, she said to her: "Go and see mom. If you are awake, talk to mom. If you are asleep, go play with the cat and draw pictures. Dad will do things for a while, and then talk to the baby later." Baby play okay?"

Yingying nodded and said yes, climbed off the chair, and left.Li Sichuan washed her bowls and spoons, and booked three air tickets with her mobile phone.

On New Year's Eve, air tickets are unsurprisingly tight, but there are always seats in business class.He booked a flight after [-]:[-] p.m., so that Xiao Yu could rest for almost the whole day. He didn't get on the plane until dinner, and went to the hotel when he arrived there.

After the air ticket was booked, he called Jin Yan, told him the flight number and departure time, and said, "Yingying can see my uncle today. The thunder in the sky, the uncle on the ground, the uncle is the biggest. Uncle, I have that one." One thing, about my return to Jinjiang on New Year's Day, Xiaoyu doesn't know, so don't mention it if you can."

"Understood." Jin Yan said: "Is it booked for today? Is Xiaoyu's body able to take it?"

"Xiaoyu was eager to go back to his hometown, and said that now that he knew, lying on the bed and waiting was no different from roasting on the fire. Only when he went back could he feel at ease." Li Sichuan said, "When Xiaoyu heard about it, she cried. Wipe your tears on the bed."

Jin Yan sighed and said, "Alright, I will pick you up at the airport."

Li Sichuan said: "If you have a funeral, there will be many guests, so don't come, just ask the hotel to arrange a car."

"I'll figure it out. See you then, take good care of Xiaoyu." Jin Yan said, "I can't wait to see Yingying. If Grandma can see her great granddaughter..."

"That's right, I didn't expect to be in such a hurry. I always thought that there would be more time in the future. We are unfilial, and the tired old man is worried." Li Sichuan blamed himself a few more times, and then hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, he thought of his grandma in Xi'an far away, so he couldn't help calling back and greeted him for a long time before giving up.

The so-called greetings are just asking for peace of mind.Young people are so cruel, they only care about their own little world, knowing that the old man will not have many days to live, and they will find all kinds of excuses not to go back, and they will only get out of the car when the obituary is delivered to them.But at this time, whether to go back or not, for the old man, there is no difference at all.

All ceremonies are done for others to see, and there is no comfort for those who have passed away.

However, some old people deserve the respect of all children and grandchildren, and some may not.Li Sichuan thought, like Xiao Yu's grandmother, it would be too light to scold an old godly woman.

At around nine o'clock that night, Li Sichuan held the baby, supported Xiaoyu, and walked to the exit with his luggage on his back. What he saw was Yu Xiushan waiting outside the isolation fence.

With so many people picking up the plane, he was the most conspicuous.

Behind him, there are several assistants around him, which are more and more eye-catching.

Li Sichuan whispered in Xiao Yu's ear, "Your father is here."

(End of this chapter)