"Yuanyuan, go and have a rest. Now I want to sleep for a while."
The mother murmured to Yuanyuan.
She helped her mother to sleep well, and gently covered her with a quilt, then turned around and left.
When I returned to the hall, my younger brother and sister had already gone to the neighbor's aunt's house to watch TV, and my father didn't know what he was still busy with.
"Let's go outside for a walk."
Standing in the hall for a moment, I said to Yuanyuan, who was frowning.
"Um."
Yuanyuan nodded.
There are no street lights outside the house, and the night is shrouded in the sky.
We were like walking into a dark cabinet.
The mountains in the distance are like huge monsters in the dark night. The barking of dogs comes from afar, as if it is coming from the distant horizon. Yuanyuan and I stayed in the yard for a while, and gradually, a vague road follows
Free from the darkness.
Yuanyuan walked in front and I followed behind, and we walked forward along a path that was neither flat nor steep.
In the dim night, pass through the woods. On the path in the forest, step on the leaves and make rustling sounds.
Yuanyuan wore a dark green windbreaker and blended with the night color, and her fat body showed a bit of maturity.
After passing a trench, a piece of plain suddenly appeared, and there were still some miscellaneous woods on all sides of the plain.
Yuanyuan said, "Let's just sit there, there are stone stools there."
Sure enough, there were a few very regular stone troughs over there.
I walked over and wiped it with my hands.
"No need to wipe it, it's very clean." Yuanyuan said again. "Besides, few people have come here usually. The stones will certainly remain clean for a long time after being washed by rain."
"Well! Where did you move such a good stool?"
I sat down excitedly and said with a smile
"Of course I moved here from a very far place."
Yuanyuan was much happier, and she also said with a smile.
In fact, these stone piers are several hundred kilograms small, and even thousands of kilograms large.
Yuanyuan and I sat down on two nearby stone piers.
It was late at night and the earth was sleeping. You could clearly hear the slight hissing of the little bugs.
We were all just sitting quietly. Perhaps, both of us had thousands of words in our hearts and thousands of thoughts were circulating in our minds.
But, none of this is so easy to pull out.
"You've been here often?"
I started the topic first.
"Yes." Yuanyuan said. "I used to come here often, but not at night. In this wilderness, I dare not come out alone at night. However, everything here feels intimate to me.
I just sat here alone for many times, and couldn't hear anyone's voice, the sound of cars whistling and noise. Many times, I sat alone, looking at the surrounding scenery and listening to the forest
The birds are crying. The green trees, green grass and wild mountain flowers here. In short, everything here makes me forget the worries and sorrows in my heart."
Listening to Yuanyuan’s narration, I felt very uncomfortable. Perhaps, she is a person with many worries and sorrows, but no one can understand her.
A gust of wind blew, and some artemisia on the edge of the trench near the wind were blown away. Under the dim starlight, Yuanyuan's eyes were filled with sadness and confusion. But I didn't know what to say to comfort her.
"Yuanyuan, I know the pain in your heart. You have also thought about that kind of quiet life with six senses." I said. "But, at present, you are the only one who can support this family. Because, among the sisters, you are the sister.
It is of course your responsibility to take care of your younger siblings and sick mothers. I admire you very much. It is not easy to do anything that ordinary people can do at such a young age. You are really a great and promising
the person.”
I casually said these inconsistent words.
Yuanyuan lowered her head.
"How do you say it?" Yuanyuan said. "In the past, I thought that going out to do some odd jobs could help the family financially, and it would be a kind of spiritual relief. However, after grandma passed away, my mother's illness was gone again
As I get heavier and heavier, I am the eldest daughter of my family, how could I think of any relief again?”
Yuanyuan said, and crystal tears slid out of her eyes.
I took out a tissue and handed it to her, and comforted her and said.
"Yes, you are the eldest daughter. People say that the elder brother is like a father and the eldest daughter is like a mother. Although you are not old, your younger brother and sister are younger, and you are the only one in the family who bravely holds up this burden."?? I said again
.?? "Actually, you are such a filial and obedient girl. On the tortuous road of life, you have not given up on a person's kindness and virtue. You are a good person, and a good person will be safe all his life."
After I finished speaking, Yuanyuan's mouth moved slightly, and after a long time, she continued:
"Actually, I used to be very willful. At that time, I always thought that filial piety to my parents was not the present, but in the distant future. But what I had to face was not the future, but now, my mother's illness was so serious, so I really had a
Three long and two short, what do you think I should do... ",
Yuanyuan started crying as she said that.
"Okay, stop crying, stop crying." I looked at Yuanyuan's face with concern and chuckled. "Yuanyuan, do you know what you are most like now?"
"Is it a little cat who is so cute?" Yuanyuan asked me in a crying voice.
"No, no." I said with a smile. "You are like a small shell, so hard on the outside but so soft on the inside."
While wiping her tears, I gently patted her hands to comfort her:
"Don't do this, no, my aunt will definitely get better..."