life under the pen of rebirth

Chapter 8 Death

The days of being the squad leader are very easy. After the last demonstration, although the children were inevitably a little angry, they didn't dare to provoke Hai Lin easily.Hailin can do whatever he wants, he can play whatever he likes, he doesn't participate or interfere; in class, he has to study obediently, it's fine if the teacher is around, if the teacher is not around, whoever talks and disturbs others before finishing homework, Hailin Lin would unceremoniously drive him out of the classroom, or make him stand until the end of class, or hand it over to the teacher. After a few times, even Sun Qiang and Li Longjun knew how to be obedient.

Of course, Hai Lin does not always implement the 'iron and blood policy'. During the self-study class, he will spare more than ten minutes for the children to tell stories, tell jokes, guess riddles, and do brain teasers.Most of them are from Hailin, thanks to his obsession with novels in his previous life, Hailin has more than a few hundred of these things in his mind, and just talking about a few in each class will make the children let go of the thoughts in their hearts. A little bumpy, even began to look forward to the self-study class, and listened more and more to Hai Lin's words.

As for Sun Qiang and Li Longjun who are more difficult to teach, Hai Lin didn't pay much attention to them at first, until one day, Hai Lin and Sun Qiang came to class with scars all over their faces, Wang Xiaojuan thought the two sides were fighting again In the end, Sun Qiang and Li Longjun came to thank Hai Lin coyly. Only then did the children know that Sun Qiang and the others were fighting with the senior children in the school.

In this way, the students live in harmony and are happy.Hailin has also been the class monitor for three years in the village primary school.

In 99, Hailin was promoted to the third grade, and many things happened in this year.

At the beginning of this year, Hai Lin suddenly remembered the sudden rainstorm and flood in the second half of the last life. I don’t remember the exact time, but it should have been around July or August, which caused great damage to the crops.Hailin doesn't know if it will happen again in this life, but for the rural people, the crop land is half of their lifeblood. It's okay to reduce the harvest due to drought and flood, but they are afraid that the whole army will be wiped out.

It's just that Hai Lin is only a child of about ten years old. Who would believe his words? !I have no choice but to borrow the wind from Haiqing Mountain again. Dad Hai has done a lot of credit!

So, within a few days, words such as, "The second child of the Hai family has dreamed about it, and it will be flooded this year", "You can't grow crops that are afraid of waterlogging", "The green hills are still protecting the orphans and widows of the second family", believers In fact, there are more people who don't believe it, but it has nothing to do with Hai Lin, the warning has already been said, it's up to them to believe it or not, anyway, Hai Mu believed it.

This spring, Hailin's family didn't grow watermelons like in previous years, and the mother and son were a little more relaxed. Haimu also went to the brigade to find some work.

During the summer vacation, it really started to rain heavily, and it continued for several days without stopping.

Haimu looked at the gloomy sky, and estimated that this year's harvest might have to be reduced. Looking back, she saw Hailin who was doing her homework on the stool like nothing else. .

It didn't take long for the rain to rain in the yard, and the water in the yard was knee-high. Haiqi, who had grown a lot, pulled Hailin to help the jellyfish to drain water. The two brothers took off their clothes and took a shower in the yard. Fortunately, the upper bunk The chickens and ducks are all rushed to the stables and put up on the slate. There is no excrement, otherwise it would be better not to wash it!

The rain doesn't look like it will stop in a short time. Although Hailin's family planted less land this year, and it is cotton that is more resistant to waterlogging, it is not true that they are not afraid of waterlogging. Continuous cloudy days can easily make cotton The leaves and roots are rotten.So the mother and son, like most people in the village, have to put on raincoats to go to the field to drain water every day. Although they don't live much, they have less labor force, so it is very tiring.

If there is too much water, there will be drowned animal corpses in the ground. This is nothing, but there are also some that cannot be drowned, such as snakes.

It's really embarrassing for a big man to be afraid of snakes, but there's nothing he can do about it. Hailin is afraid of things with less than one leg and more than four legs.

That day, when the mother and son came back from the field, Haiqi saw a snake crawling into the haystack by the roadside with sharp eyes. Toss and play.

Hailin next to her immediately froze and quickly moved to the other side of Haimu, without even looking at it, the hairs all over her body stood on end.

Haimu also looked at it in a panic, and ordered Haiqi to throw it away, and both mother and son agreed not to allow Haiqi to get close until they got home.

Hai Qi's depression disappeared when he saw his uncle at the door of the house.

Uncle Hailin, who came in the rain, looked embarrassed even though he was wearing a raincoat. Most of his body was wet and his trousers were covered with mud. Most importantly, the uncle who had always been humorous and optimistic had a face that didn't fit him. Haggard and depressed character.

Hailin had a bad premonition, he felt that he really wanted to forget something.

"Sister, I'm afraid our mother can't do it..."

really.

Hai Lin felt his brain explode and he was a little numb.

How did he forget? In 99, along with the rainstorm, Grandma Hailin passed away!

In fact, Grandma Hailin has been ill for several days, but it was not that severe at first, and it happened to be a heavy rain, and all the fields were busy. The uncle and uncle wanted to take care of themselves, so they didn’t feel sick. Tell Haimu and Aunt Hailin who is far away, but who knows that the disease is getting worse and worse, and now I can't even speak, and it seems to be dying, so the two brothers are anxious.

Grandma Hailin actually suffered a lot when she was young. At that time, equality between men and women was advocated, and women should do the same for men. Grandma Hailin and the others went down the river with men to dig sand and pave roads. They still had to do it in winter. I didn't feel anything except cold and tired, and I was suffering from all kinds of illnesses when I got old, and now I'm only in my 60s.

When her grandma passed away in her previous life, Hailin was still half-understood. At that time, going to the grave was only fun, and she didn’t even know how to cry, so she didn’t have a deep impression at all. The reason why she remembered it was because of the flood. .

The mother and son tidied up in a hurry. They followed the uncle in the rain and rushed to grandma's house without even changing their clothes.

When we arrived, the aunt, mother and son, and the aunt and his wife had already arrived. My aunt was in a hurry. Seeing that my grandma had become ill like this, she was throwing a temper tantrum at my uncle. My uncle never said anything about my aunt, so I could only stand aside and say nothing.The eldest concubine was not very happy to be there, and choked a few words, after all, they didn't leave the old man alone.

Mother Hai persuaded her, then climbed onto the kang and looked at grandma's frowning face.

"Father, this can't work, I have to send him to the hospital!"

At this time, although there were no counterfeit medicines or anything, the capabilities of the village health center were not bad for minor illnesses and pains, but for serious illnesses, they had to be sent to the hospital.

After discussing with the grandfather and the siblings, the aunt's daughter and son-in-law work in the city hospital, and their position is not low, so they can help.

When the car was called, the eldest cousin and Hai Qi and the juniors helped to wrap Grandma Hailin tightly and put her in the car, and took her directly to the city hospital.

The Haiqi brothers were still young, and they were just in the way when they went, so they were left at home.Grandpa Hailin was getting old and didn't bother to let anyone go. Grandpa didn't say anything, and his expression was a little indifferent, as if he had seen through something. Although he was sad, he didn't look like his sons and daughters So eager.

Both Hailin and Haiqi live in the uncle's house, and the cousins ​​of the uncle's family have already gone to work in the factory, and the eldest sister-in-law and the younger sister-in-law are at home cooking for them and the uncle's cousin and grandfather.In the first few days, Hai Lin was so anxious that his heart was on fire, and the corners of his mouth were blistered, but then he cooled down. He knew in his heart that his grandma might not be able to make it through this summer vacation.

At the end of the summer vacation, the cloudy and rainy weather for more than ten consecutive days finally began to clear up, and grandma was also pulled back by the car because the hospital had already ordered the funeral.

The Haimu brothers and sisters were depressed but took care of the grandmother who was no longer able to respond more carefully, trying to make her go more comfortably.

At the end of August, Hailin, who had already started school, refused to go to school even if he died. Haimu couldn't drive him away, so he had to stay and let Haiqi go back to school by himself. Fortunately, Haiqi still had noodles at home and could make do by himself A few meals.

At the beginning of September, Grandma Hailin still left.

The old man left in the middle of the night and did not wake up during the period. Haimu said that he woke up several times when he was in the hospital, but he just rolled his eyes and looked at people without saying a word.It can be seen that there is no pain when walking, and the face is very peaceful. For rural people, it is a good thing for the elderly to leave early when they are sick. Sick and suffer too much.

Grandpa Hailin and grandma have been sleeping on the same kang. In those nights, Hailin next door listened to grandpa muttering something all night long. , Sometimes it doesn't have any practical meaning, I just feel that there is a little indescribable flatness and tolerance in those words.

In the early morning of the day when grandma went, Hailin was the first to call out.

Listening to his grandpa rambling about, he gradually became a little confused. At this moment, he felt that his grandpa stopped suddenly, and then there was a long silence. When Hailin almost thought that his grandpa had fallen asleep, he said a deep sentence. The sigh sounded: "After all, you left early!"

Hai Lin was taken aback for a moment, his mind suddenly became clear, and he sat up almost immediately.

"Grandma!"