When I was five years old, my eldest brother got married, and my parents took me back to my hometown. Among the many brothers, sisters, and younger brothers and sisters, there was a girl who was a few months younger than me. She looked like a doll on TV, and her hair was Huang Youjuan, so beautiful, let’s hide and seek together, play eagle and catch chickens, you run and I chase...
I followed my brothers and sisters in calling her cousin. Later I found out that she was the cousin who was sent away by my uncle.
This was her first time going home to attend her brother's wedding as a relative.
Because I like her, I miss her heart and soul.
During the summer vacation after graduating from elementary school, one day, my mother told me that my cousin was back and was taken home by her uncle.
I was so happy that I immediately begged my parents to take me back to my hometown. My dad sent me a telegram and waited for my parents to take leave from work. The three of us hurriedly caught the train, took the bus and drove all the way to the town, and then followed the moon. I walked forward in the dark, and when I reached the other side of the mountain, I saw several beams of light on the opposite hillside. I covered my mouth with my hands and shouted "Hey" loudly. There were cheers from the other side. It was my cousins and cousins who came to pick us up. .
There was no electricity in my hometown, let alone a flashlight. My clever cousin took a few sticks and wrapped them with thick discarded plastic film to make a torch. She set out early and waited on the hillside to light it up for me.
The feeling of exhaustion disappeared instantly. I ignored my parents’ shouts and ran tremblingly along the mountain road. We met at the bottom of the mountain. We hadn’t seen each other for several years. We all have grown a lot taller, especially my cousin, who has become more graceful. .
That year, under the leadership of my cousins, my cousins and I learned to cut wheat, climb trees, catch snakes, dig out bird's nests, and climb over walls and roofs.
In the evening, everyone moved out their bedding together and set up a big kang with bricks and wooden boards in the yard. The sisters huddled on it, looked at the sky, counted the stars, and told stories.
That year, the second brother of my cousin’s family got married, and the third brother was admitted to the military academy and went to study abroad.
The uncle and aunt are older and raise a lot of sheep.
My cousin doesn’t want to call her uncle or aunt, but she says her parents are not them. I know that my cousin misses her adoptive parents. Although she doesn't say it, I have seen her secretly shed tears.
A cousin who was only 12 years old left her adoptive parents and went to live with her biological parents, whom she had only met once. She had brothers and sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces, and her miserable life began.
To be continued...
