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After reading an article written by Teacher Ku Ming about cousin Xiaohong, I couldn't help but think of a cousin from my second aunt's house.
Like Sister Xiaohong, my cousin is also not very intelligent, but she is not caused by a high fever, but she is like this when she was born.
In my impression, she has had one eye since she was a child and has squinted her (commonly known as cross-eye) and does not speak very quickly. If she is anxious, her mouth will be even more stuttering.
My cousin is seven years younger than me. She was born in 2000. She has an older sister, who is three years older than me.
When my cousin was born, our family took a bus to Jining to see her. At that time, she was lying in a cradle with a fat face and a pink and teddy like a porcelain doll, which was very adorable.
At that time, everyone praised my cousin as a beauty. Unexpectedly, later, she was getting farther and farther away from the beauty - baby teeth fell off, she grew buck teeth, supporting her originally small mouth to the top; the eyes that were already squinted, because they had been watching TV for many years, were even more slanted. What made her "distance" with the beauty was that she didn't like to be clean, and she often had dust on her face, looking like a kitten that had just emerged from the stove.
When she was a child, she often followed her second aunt to visit relatives. Her temperament is a bit unpredictable. When the strange adults are not in front of her, she is crazy and quarrels, like a little bandit; once the adults come, she is so timid that she is like a little rat, hiding behind her second aunt with her head and head, fearing that others will notice her.
My mother is a cold-faced person. Every year when I send my cousin New Year’s money , my mother always likes to tease her and seduce her to shout "英语". At this time, everyone's eyes were fixed on her cousin. She was so embarrassed that she trembled all over. She wanted New Year's money but she didn't dare to speak, and she didn't dare to reach out to take it. She had to tilt her little face and "seek for help" to her second aunt.
The second aunt naturally knew my mother's temper. She coaxed her cousin and said, "Just call me twice." My cousin just didn't speak, and even tears gushed out of her eyes. Seeing that she was about to cry, my mother quickly stuffed the New Year's money into her arms.
Finally, amid the crowd of laughter, my cousin did not shed tears. Sometimes, she would burst into tears and burst into laughter and blew a big bubble on her nose. As soon as the dirty cotton jacket was wiped, the person walked away with his waist.
After my grandfather passed away (my grandma left very early), my second aunt didn’t come to my house often. The reason is very simple. If there are no elderly people, I will have less concern for my hometown.
When I was in junior high school and high school, it was basically rare to see my second aunt once in two or three years. Sometimes she would come with her cousin, and sometimes she would come alone.
So, in my impression, my cousin is almost like one at a time. In 2011, during the winter vacation of my senior year of high school, my cousin came with my second aunt. At that time, I suddenly realized that her body was about to catch up with my second aunt.
She is still crazy and shy, sometimes noisy and sometimes restrained. When my mother gave her New Year's money, the scene from a few years ago was staged again. She wanted it but was embarrassed to call her "Pretty", and she just stood up a little awkwardly.
Looking at her eyes, tears were already spinning. My father hurriedly put down his wine glass and came out to smooth things over. He put the money into her pocket. Then she jumped and went to the stove to play with my cat cat.
That year, my second aunt invited me to go to her house for a summer vacation next year, saying that she would take me to Jining for a good trip.
After the college entrance examination, I took a bus to my second aunt's house alone (I have her address). At that time, she and her second uncle were not at home, and the door was closed. I asked an old lady I had opposite and found out that they had gone to the ground.
I looked along the river bank. In the vast rice fields, I didn’t see them. I was at a loss when I saw a little girl in the distance shouting “Brother” with her arms raised.
looked closely and it turned out to be her cousin. She ran towards me while shouting. I don’t know if it’s the elastic band on her pants or what’s going on. She slid her pants with one hand and waved hard in the air with the other.
walked to me and saw that I was carrying a big schoolbag. She said she had to take whatever she wanted, but she obviously underestimated the weight of the schoolbag. She exerted force with both hands, and the schoolbag was just dragged forward. Of course, my schoolbag was carried on me again.
That day, Ergu ordered two hard dishes from the restaurant at the entrance of the village, one was Kung Pao Chicken Ding , and the other was Braised Elbow . During the meal, my cousin kept staring at me with her head tilted. My second aunt asked her what she was laughing at. She didn't say anything, but just grinned, and almost choked on the steamed bun. Moreover, what unexpectedly surprised my second aunt was that my cousin kept picking up food in my bowl and plate, which was a treatment that neither she nor her second uncle had ever experienced.
The week I stayed at Ergu’s house. Because I was too busy, Ergu couldn’t take time to take me around. I only went to see the zoo. But when I got there, I found that the zoo had already become a ruin and it was said that it was preparing to build an airport.
Later, my second aunt took my cousin and I to a large market next to us, and she specially pulled me to watch the train that pulled coal for a while. I feel that I lack interest, but my cousin likes it very much. As she watched the carriage full of cinder drive past the platform, she was so excited that she danced with her hands and feet, and her mouth was "whimpering". It made people laugh and sad when they saw it.
At the old book stall in the big collection, my second aunt asked me to choose a few books. I didn't plan to ask for it (because my mother specifically told me not to spend my second aunt's money indiscriminately), but my second aunt insisted on buying it, so I chose the cheapest book "The Travels of Lao Can". When asked her cousin if she wanted to buy books, her second aunt smiled bitterly and said that her cousin had been at home for more than half a year.
asked the reason, and the second aunt said helplessly that the children in school always bullyed their cousin, and the cousin felt uncomfortable and was unwilling to study. In fact, even if she went there, she couldn't learn anything. Every time she took the exam, she handed in a big white paper with only her own name written.
My cousin smiled embarrassedly as she heard this. She wanted to say something, but then another train full of cinder came slowly, and her attention turned from me and my second aunt to the train.
During those days, when my second aunt and my second uncle were busy in the field, I and my cousin stayed at home. I was reading a book in the room, and she sat in the main room to watch cartoons. From time to time, she would push open my door, sometimes she would deliver a washed apple, sometimes she would get an cake , which would treat me very well.
I remember that she took me to her grandma's house at that time. He was an old lady with a bad temper. Perhaps because her second aunt failed to let her hold her grandson, she disliked her second aunt and the two daughters she gave birth to, especially this little granddaughter with a bad mind.
But my cousin is very nice to grandma. Every time I have delicious items at home, I can’t forget my grandma. Even if grandma scolded "silly girl" in front of everyone, she was still neither ashamed nor annoyed. She hugged the old lady's arm with a smile and stuffed the good things into her mouth.
My cousin knows how to care for people. According to my observation, she was willing to help her second uncle rub his back (when taking a shower at night), and would diligently help her to go upstairs to pick peppers. One day, I accidentally heard that I wanted to go fishing in the pond south of her house. After dinner, she put down the bowls and chopsticks and took a small shovel to dig out earthworms - but because she didn't have enough brains, she kept digging in the hard land on the side of the road, so she found nothing. After staying in
for a few days, it's time for me to go home. My second aunt pushed the bicycle with her cousin on it and took me to take the bus together. On the way, my cousin's expression was a little dim and she was silent. When she saw a bus coming from a distance with a horn, she suddenly pulled my backpack and said, "Brother, stay for a few more days!"
I didn't say anything, and the second aunt rubbed her cousin's head and said, "Your brother is going to go to college, you should also be more angry and learn from you!" My cousin smiled embarrassedly, as if she was ashamed of not being able to study.
The car is here.Under the driver's urging, I hurriedly got into the car, and then the car roared away, leaving my cousin and second aunt behind. Looking back, the two of them have become two vague black dots.
Since then, I have never been to my second aunt's house or met my cousin. I heard that for a while, my second uncle loved to drink and was not at ease after drinking. He often vented his anger on his second aunt and cousin. Once, my cousin couldn't stand it anymore and sneaked out of the house.
Fortunately, there was a piece of cloth sewn on her clothes, which read the second aunt's contact information, so she was sent home by a kind-hearted person. Since then, the second aunt has taken care of her cousin very closely and will take her with her whenever she goes out.
Now, my cousin is twenty-three years old and is at the age of marriage. Ergu didn't know how to arrange her cousin's marriage. Every time she heard the sound of people making salutes from the street, she felt very uncomfortable.
I heard from my cousin (the eldest daughter of the second aunt) on the phone that my second aunt has always been depressed recently. First, my health is not very good, and I have found several elderly diseases; second, because of my cousin's affairs, since I forced my cousin to go on a blind date at home last time, my cousin's mental state is very poor. I muttered to myself during the day and kept talking nonsense in the middle of the night.
How should my cousin arrange her future life? This has become the biggest heart disease of the second aunt - obviously, this is a very difficult problem. What makes the second aunt even more uncomfortable is that her second aunt doesn’t seem to care much about this matter. She falls asleep every night when she gets drunk, and looks indifferent.
Alas, what can I do? I can only hope that my cousin can have a good home for the rest of her life and live her life safely and smoothly. In this way, the second aunt felt relieved.
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Yang Liu Yiyi (pse name), original name Zhang Xiaohe, born in the 1990s, from Zibo, Shandong, likes to write, and is a freelance writer.
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