Grandma is fat, eats a lot, has big feet and laughs loudly. I heard from my grandfather that he was 27 when he married his grandmother and her grandmother was 20. Grandpa was a blacksmith at that time, casting all kinds of living and farming tools for his neighbors near and far. Grandma does housework and looks after the farmland. Although they are poor, they still have enough food and clothes.
I don't know much about my grandparents' youth. At that time, according to the matchmaker's words, the two married. They live a plain life of daily necessities, soy sauce, vinegar and tea. They are not as romantic as we thought. They only work at sunrise every day, rest at sunset and work hard with their backs to the loess.
When I was a child, I stood next to my grandmother. I looked up and found how tall she was.
My parents went out to work when my brother and I were very young. My grandparents brought up my brother and me, and the hardships are self-evident. I grew up in a remote mountainous area in Chongqing. When I was in the first grade of primary school, because the school was far from my home, my grandmother would get up early every day to make breakfast for me and put a box in my iron lunch box for lunch. Although the food is simple, it is delicious.
Grandma often cooks good food with ordinary raw materials. Every autumn, when your own flat peas are ripe, take tender flat peas and bought rice flour (rice), wash the bacon and cut it into filaments, then add other simple condiments and stir it evenly to steam it into a delicious dish. The dishes at home always change with the seasons. When the eggplant and bitter gourd are ripe, cut the eggplant into sections and hollow it out, wrap it with stuffing made of shredded potatoes and bacon, and steam it. It's really delicious. I'm not sensible. Every time I eat minced meat, I give my bitter bitter gourd wallet to my grandmother. I really shouldn't think about it now. Grandma who has time will grind raw potatoes into paste, remove excess water and make cakes. After frying the cake, fry it with bacon. Potato cakes are soft and delicious, and bacon is delicious. Grandma cooks a lot and puts Chili noodles in everything. Although I don't like steamed potatoes, it's better to dip them in grandma's Chili sauce. Grandma grows konjac herself, and then goes through many processes to make konjac tofu every New Year. Usually fried with pickled radish slices. The method is extremely simple, but it is extremely easy to eat. I remember when I was very young, my grandparents cooked endless sweet potatoes into sesame candy, which was dark, sticky and sweet. This is the sweetest memory of childhood. Every Dragon Boat Festival, grandma will wrap many zongzi with corn syrup. After dinner, she will bake some on the kitchen stove. The baked zongzi is brown outside and sweet inside, which is equivalent to a "Duzui" (Chongqing dialect) snack. My own chopped peppers and dried plums were pickled by my grandmother.
Grandma may not realize how good her cooking is, but to me, every dish she cooks tastes like home and is an irreplaceable memory.
My family usually eats three meals of rice and stir-fry a day, and grandma cooks by herself. Because there is only one coal stove, there is no electricity equipment, and the cooking time is often longer, so the time for eating is later than other families. I often complain when I am not sensible, and I have many things to apologize to my grandmother. This is one of them. My brother and I hardly washed dishes or washed clothes when we were children. Grandma helps us wash clothes. It's a pity to think about it now After school or summer vacation, I always like to go to my friend's house to play double-breasted (a poker game). Every time I eat, I will hear my grandpa or grandma call me home for dinner. I felt embarrassed and disgusted at that time. Looking back now, my mind is really narrow. Sometimes I don't go home all day. Grandpa often cleans me up when I go home, but grandma will protect me almost every time.
Of course, my grandmother sometimes beats me, for example, I sleep late and don't get up. I am hoarse, but I have no choice but to get up. Often because of fun, I turn on the light to do my homework at night. My grandmother always told me, "I'm not busy early, I'm flustered at night, and I have to mend my crotch in the middle of the night." What a classic quote!
I especially miss growing rice at home when I was a child. Grandma will pickle salted duck eggs in advance, and every villager who helps transplant rice will have a salted duck egg. This is our tradition there, and of course I have it, too. I was very happy. What I miss is not duck eggs, but carefree childhood and grandma's healthy and tough body.
With the growth of age, my grandmother became more and more rickety.
I am lucky that I "know" how to study, and I didn't go out to work early like other friends in the village because I was tired of studying, and I got married and had children early. But with my further study, I am getting farther and farther away from home, and I haven't seen my grandparents for a long time. The terrible thing is that I never realized the physical pain my grandmother suffered, or I did, but I turned a blind eye. I don't often call when I'm not sensible, and I feel that my grandmother is living in my telephone conversation.
Because of the development of the times, the business of the blacksmith's shop composed of my grandfather and my father has become increasingly bleak, and the black coal mine accidents in the village have occurred frequently, gradually declining and being banned. The blacksmith shop, which mainly casts coal mining tools, has also been eliminated by the times. Grandpa works full-time in agriculture and his parents work outside.
Grandparents are extremely frugal, saving every piece of paper and dollar, and often reluctant to wear new clothes. The focus of life is livestock, crops and three meals a day. I have always had an affinity for fat people, all because of my grandmother. It may be because grandma's weight, coupled with years of fatigue, led to serious wear and tear of lumbar joints, long bone spurs. Grandma finally walked 90 degrees with crutches.
Since grandma was diagnosed with diabetes, she can only give up her favorite fruit and all sweets. Two old people are at home, eating irregularly, and their blood sugar concentration is out of control. Many complications are caused by diabetes. I can't remember how many times my grandmother went to the hospital, which was also very torture for her long-term carsickness.
As long as I can remember, my grandmother seldom went back to her parents' house, and her family seldom visited relatives. She said many times that she went to several brothers' houses for a while. Grandma likes listening to some "folk songs" I said I would buy her a radio to listen to songs. Grandma loves to watch the animal world, and grandma has never been far away. I am going to take her to Beijing to play.
Grandma left in April, ending her pain. She said she was in pain and often couldn't sleep at night. She often plays jokes on me and hopes to leave early. A few months later, I returned to my life and left my sadness in the past. Grandma's simple and loving face often appears in my mind. I know she will always watch me move forward.
Grandma has never read a book, has no lofty ideals, and has never thought about being rich. She devoted her whole life to her family. She is a simple and kind person. I often think of my grandmother when I see the old lady walking briskly. I hope grandma can dance square dance and make her hair into wavy circles. How nice!
This article commemorates my dear grandmother.