Green Apricot

Chapter 6

After we finished eating, Uncle Tianming left. I wanted to go with him, but I had no reason to go, so I had to stay at my grandma's house.After eating, I went to lie down on my uncle's bed in the attic for a while.Some sleepy.But thinking about Uncle Tianming, he watched from the attic.Uncle Tianming had disappeared deep in the bamboo forest.

I didn't feel sleepy after a while, so I went downstairs and asked my grandma, "You fucked him? I've never seen him before."

Grandma glanced at me, squeezed me and said: "He is my generation, you will call him uncle."I was shocked, uncle?I can't ask any more questions.Because it should not be any special relatives.Seeing how my grandma divided the generations so clearly, when he came to my house that day, he didn't see my mother use honorific words to him.I'd better go home and ask my mother.

After a while, a person walked in from the door. This person looked like a beard, with a lot of gray beard, and the length of the beard was about ten centimeters.A black turban is wrapped around the head.One foot was broken at the ankle and was tightly wrapped in cloth.Seeing that the age is around sixty.

I knew it was from the Bouyei tribe at first glance. The man looked at me, and my grandma said, "You should call this uncle."I don't know what the relationship between my uncle and uncle is.But he still called out "Uncle".

He looked at me and asked grandma, "This is?"

Grandma answered immediately and said: "This is Xiaobao (my uncle's nickname) and his nephew."

He looked me up and down and said, "He looks good (dialect: handsome), isn't he the one who almost died when he was young, and finally took him to the crooked mountain to find Boss Liu (a local doctor) to use cow dung The one that Kaoru is ready?"

"Yes, thanks to your good memory."

"Such a big thing, we all know."I thought to myself, did I ever get seriously ill when I was young?Go back and ask my mother.

"Where did Xiaobao go?"

"He went to drive the cattle back, and he will be there in a while."

"This time, if he plays his temper again, I won't care about it?"

"Well, let him go, that's what he is."

They chatted with each other about some unimportant things, and after a while, my uncle came in from the outside with a cow. Seeing someone in the house, he seemed a little angry.Said: "Coming?".As he spoke, he closed the gate of the cowshed.Then he took the water bottle and planned to go out.

My great-uncle stood up immediately and said sharply, "Can you listen to me first before you do your work? I ran all the way here and walked for two hours and you treat me like this?"

Uncle felt wronged. Although he didn't want to see him very much in his heart, he shouldn't be fooled like this out of emotion and reason. What should be said sooner or later would be to say: "Okay, you say it."

"This year, 38, right?"

"What can you say directly?" Uncle was very unhappy.

"I said what's wrong with you? You don't think about yourself, you have to think about your mother too!"

"My mother, I will think about it myself, so you don't need to worry about it."

"I said, why are you so ignorant? Look at the people around you? Which one is worrying about you? Others are waiting to see your jokes."

"Anyway, I will deal with my own affairs myself."

"Okay, okay, this time I brought you people, two boys and one girl, when the time comes, you can watch for yourself, I have already told people about the matter, when the time comes, will you not let them in, or will you keep them together?" Drive them away without giving them a meal, whatever you want.”

I watched from the side, what is this talking about?It was just a quarrel, they talked to each other in the afternoon, my mother-in-law (custom: the meaning of grandma) cooked a bowl of noodles for my uncle and ate it, and my uncle left.

It didn't take long for my great-uncle to leave before it got dark, as if it was going to rain heavily. I was going to leave too, but I had to wait for the rain to pass before leaving.I went out to relieve myself, and saw that Uncle Tianming was coming to my grandma's house.He smiled when he saw me from afar: "Be careful, little girl, I was taken away by the bird".I carried him on my back, and he went to my grandma's house in a while.

I heard my grandma say to him in the house: "Tianming, please persuade you...".

"Old sister, I think it's okay to forget about it, look, oh, forget it, I'm here to call Tianming", and walked out after saying that.I looked at him and said, "Why don't you try to persuade me?".

"You don't understand this! It stands to reason that I am uncle's elder, but he is older than me, how can I persuade him? Second, you don't know about your uncle."Then he whispered in my ear: "Your uncle, whoever persuades him will be angry with him! Over the years, there are not a few people who have introduced him to a partner, and there are no good deeds with good intentions. They are all blushed and thick necked by him." .

"My uncle is so hateful?".

"Hey, you go back and ask your mother carefully. I guess they would never tell you these things as an adult over the years. Now that you are old, you should be able to understand what you say."

"No! Although you are older than him, you are educated. Wearing such a rich outfit, no one can see that you are educated when you go out! You are educated, and there is some truth in what you say. Listen."

"Forget it, forget it, don't worry about it with you, understand it better, I'll give you something, and you can take it back. Isn't your mother doing work for others recently? I have a lot of books here, and it's not worth selling them. A few money, you take it back, you have to look at it, useless, it will be used as waste paper for your parents."

Uncle Tianming's house is a large courtyard surrounded by bamboo slices. Once you enter the large courtyard of his house, you can see more than a dozen small two-story buildings in a semicircle around the city. In the middle of the courtyard is a pear tree.A few children were watching TV in the house, and some children were chasing chickens in the yard.I followed Uncle Tianming up the stairs to the second floor, hoping in my heart that no adult would come out, otherwise I really don't know what to call him.

We entered a room with a large bed, a wardrobe, and a desk. The quilt was neatly folded on one corner of the bed.Next to the desk is the window.Outside the window are branches of peach and plum trees, scattered and criss-crossed.

"This is your home?" I felt a little guilty.

"Why? Not like?".

"Oh, no, I'm just wondering, I often come to my grandma's house, why don't I have any impression of you?"

"Normal, I don't often live in my hometown, why do you see me? Hurry up, it's getting dark, I'm slow, be careful to be dragged away by ghosts halfway."As he spoke, he put the organized books in a backpack, which looked brand new.I told him that I would return the bag in a few days.He said no need, he has a lot of bags.

When leaving, in case of rain, he gave me a piece of plastic film.I will say goodbye to grandma and go home.