My grandmother was born into a family that favored sons over daughters. She was abused by her own mother when she was a child, which left her with a hidden disease in her right foot. However, my grandmother did not take this as a problem, and was always cheerful and loved to laugh.
Grandma was fat, had a big appetite, big feet, and a big laugh. I heard my grandfather say that when he married grandma was 27 years old, grandma was 20 years old. He was a blacksmith at the time, casting all kinds of living and farming tools for his neighbors. The grandmother took care of the household chores and farmland, and the two of them were able to make ends meet despite the hardships of their lives.
I don't know much about the youth of the grandparents, in those days, should be matchmaker's words, the happy couple, the two people live is the wood, rice, oil, salt, vinegar, and tea of the ordinary days, no we imagine that those romantic, only the daily sunrise, sunset and rest, face to face the yellow soil back to the sky of the hard work.
As a child I stood next to my grandmother, I looked up and realized how tall she was.
My mom and dad went out to work when my brother and I were very young, and it was my grandparents who brought my brother and me up, which was tough. I grew up in a remote mountainous area of Chongqing City, the first grade, because the school is far from my home, every day before dawn Grandma has to get up early to give me breakfast, but also my iron lunch box with a box of noon to eat, although the meal is simple, but very delicious.
Grandma often used the usual ingredients to make delicious dishes. Every fall, home-grown peas ripe, take the tender peas, buy the rice flour (rice), wash the bacon and cut into shreds, and then add other simple condiments, together with the mix, can be steamed into a delicious food. The family's dishes always follow the seasons. When the eggplants and bitter gourds are ripe, the eggplants are cut into sections and hollowed out, wrapped with fillings made from shredded potatoes and preserved meat, and steamed, which is really delicious. Whenever I ate the meat filling, I would give my grandmother the bitter skin of the bitter gourd, which I shouldn't have done now. Grandma will have time to grind raw potatoes into a paste, remove excess water and then made into a cake, the cake will be fried and fried with bacon, the potato cake is soft and tasty, bacon is very fragrant. Grandma cooks a lot and puts chili noodles in everything. Although I don't like steamed potatoes, I would rather not eat them if I can dip them in the chili sauce made by my grandmother. Grandma grows her own konjac, and every New Year's Eve, she makes konjac tofu through a number of processes, which is often stir-fried with pickled radish cuttings, which is extremely simple to do, but extremely delicious. I remember when I was very young, my grandparents will eat endless sweet potato boiled into hemp sugar, black, sticky, very sweet, this is considered the sweetest memories of childhood. Every Dragon Boat Festival Grandma will use corn syrup to make a lot of dumplings, after the meal inside the kitchen stove baked a few, baked dumplings outside the caramelized, sweet inside, which is equivalent to a family of "mouth mouth" (Chongqing dialect) snacks. The family's chopped peppers and dried vegetables are all pickled by the grandmother.
Grandma may not have realized how good she was at cooking, but for me, every dish she made was a taste of home and an irreplaceable memory.
My family usually ate three meals a day of rice and stir-fried vegetables, all grandma cooking, because of a coal stove, there is no electrification equipment, cooking time is often longer, and therefore the dinner time is later than other families, I tend to whine, I want to apologize to grandma for a lot of things, and this is one of them. My brother and I hardly washed any dishes or clothes growing up, and it was all grandma's help, which is a shame when I think about it now. After school or summer vacation, I always love to go to my little friend's house to play double-button (a game of poker), every meal time will hear grandpa or grandma kept calling me loudly to go home for dinner, at that time, I felt very disgraceful, the heart of the very disgusted, and now I think back to the time when the heart is really narrow-minded. Sometimes the whole day does not go home, home grandpa tends to pack me, but grandma almost every time will protect me.
Of course, my grandmother sometimes hit me, such as when I sleep lazy not get up. Beat me croaked, but there is nothing to do but get up obediently. Often because of playfulness, the night light to do homework, grandma will always say to me: "morning is not busy, the night heart panic, the middle of the night at night to make up the crotch". It's a classic quote!
I especially miss the time when my family planted rice when I was a child, my grandmother would pickle salted duck eggs in advance, and each of the folks who helped plant rice seedlings would have a salted duck egg, which is considered to be a tradition in our area, and of course, I also had one, and I was exceptionally happy at that time. What I miss is not the duck eggs, but the carefree childhood and the healthy body of my grandmother.
I grew up slowly, and my grandmother became more and more stooped
I was lucky that I could read, and I didn't go out to work early like my other friends in the village because I was bored with school, and I got married and had children early. But as I went to school, I got farther and farther away from home, and I didn't see my grandparents for longer and longer periods of time. The scary thing is that I never realized the physical pain that my grandmother suffered, or rather, I realized it but turned a blind eye to it. I didn't understand that my phone didn't call often enough, and I felt that my grandmother was living in my phone.
Because of the development of the times, my grandfather and the youngest father formed the blacksmith store business more and more miserable, the village black coal kiln accidents, and gradually declined and was banned. The blacksmith's store, which was mainly used for casting tools for digging coal, was also eliminated by the times.
Grandma and Grandpa were exceptionally frugal, saving every piece of paper, every dollar, often new clothes can't be worn, the center of gravity of life in the livestock, in the crops, in the three meals a day. I've always had an affinity for fat people, and it's all because of my grandmother. My grandmother's weight, coupled with years of hard labor, caused severe wear and tear on the joints of the lumbar spine and the growth of bone spurs. The grandmother was basically walking with her crutches bent at 90 degrees.
Since the grandmother checked out the diabetes, grandmother can only give up her favorite fruit, give up all the sweet things. The two old people at home, irregular diet, blood glucose concentration has been unable to control, because of diabetes caused by many complications, I do not remember how many times the grandmother went to the hospital, a long time in the car for the grandma of the motion sickness is also very tortured.
In my memory, my grandmother rarely returned to her mother's home, and rarely her mother's family to visit relatives, said many times to go to a few brothers to play for a period of time. Grandma likes to listen to some "mountain songs", I said to buy her a radio to listen to songs. Grandma loves to see the world of animals, but also grandma has not been out of the house, I plan to take her to Beijing to play in my heart.
Grandma left in April, the end of a body of pain, she said, she was in too much pain, often so much pain that she could not sleep at night, she often joked with me, wishing to leave early. Months passed and I went back to my life, leaving the sadness in the past, Grandma's simple loving face comes back to me from time to time, and I know that she will always watch me move forward.
Grandma didn't read books, no lofty ideals, and never asked for glory, she dedicated her life to her family, she is a simple and kind person. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get the best out of your life, but I'm sure you'll be able to get the best out of your life. I really hope that the grandmother dancing square dance, hair made into a wavy circle, how good ah!
With this article in memory of my loving grandmother.