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Chapter 2 Childhood Expectations

In my memory, since my dad passed away, our family's life has been even more sad. My mom often sheds tears and goes out early and comes home late. In addition to taking care of my sister every day, I comb her hair and braid her hair, wipe her buttocks, and help feed her. Feed the chickens and ducklings.Many times when it gets dark and I don't see my mother come home, I ask my sister to climb into the stone footbath at the door. If she can't climb up, I push her up with my butt and back, and then I climb up and snuggle with her until my mother comes back. , we cried for a while and no one answered us, so we curled up and fell asleep. Sometimes my sister and I were reluctant to be woken up by our mother to eat in the middle of the night, and kept crying "Wow..." My mother could see that our two poor children also I kept crying. At that time, I often wondered why my sister and I would run to the bed while sleeping in a stone basin.When I grew up, I learned that it was my mother who put us sisters to bed after finishing work.

I remember one time, Xiao Hai, who was two years younger than me, and I were playing shuttle board on a slope, which is a game where we shuttle down a slope with our feet together. The two of us were playing in tandem, one behind the other. , my younger sister also ran over and imitated us to play. Since she was too young to drag her hands behind her, she fell down and rolled to the field below, crying "Wow wow". Xiaohai was so frightened that she ran home, and I was so frightened that I cried. When my mother ran back and picked up my sister, I saw blood everywhere and thought it was a scratch on my stomach. I was so frightened that I backed away.While my mother was taking off my sister's clothes, I scolded me: "You're such a loser. I asked you to take care of your sister at home. Is this how you do it? The dam is so wide that it's not enough for you to toss around, but you have to run to shuttle. It's so tall." Why didn’t Popo throw you to death..." I was so scared that I hid aside and cried, thinking that she came here to play by herself, and I didn’t ask her to follow me around. I didn’t want my sister to fall!

My sister cried out in pain, and my mother discovered that my sister’s hand pole had been cut a long way by a broken glass bottle. My mother bandaged her hand while scolding me: “This is all your fault. Fortunately, it’s your fault.” What if the hand pole is scratched on the stomach or face?" I cried aggrievedly and said: "I didn't bring her, she came here by herself..." My mother couldn't help but grabbed a water carrier next to me. The pole came towards me, and the iron hook on one end of the pole hit my instep. It hurt so much that I cried. I felt that my mother was unreasonable and beat me without asking anything.My mother saw me crying so hard and thought I didn't admit my mistake. She rushed up to beat me while holding my sister in her arms. I was so frightened that I quickly hid on the back edge of our house. I didn't dare to go back even after dark. What was I thinking about? My family is not like this. If only I had a father, my sister might not fall into the water, and my mother would not chase me and beat me...

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, my mother took my sister and I to my grandma’s house to celebrate the festival. Grandma was busy making delicious food. As soon as my mother went there, she was in the kitchen helping her to light the fire. Grandma was busy cooking and making noodles for frying. Youguo, I snuggled up to my mother and watched the Youguo in the pot, drooling.After a while, there was a noise outside that attracted my mother and I outside. I saw my fourth aunt’s family, Sister Xiaofeng, who was eight months older than me, and her family arrived. My aunt and her cousins ​​all rushed to greet me. Sister Feng had a ponytail and a new dress. She smiled and came forward to praise: "Wow! Xiaofeng looks so beautiful today. Who bought this new dress?" Sister Xiaofeng happily turned around and pointed to the girl next to her. My uncle said, "My dad bought it for me in the city." He shouted, "Dad..." and ran towards his uncle. He chuckled and said, "Dad, my cousins ​​all praised you for buying it for me." The clothes are good-looking." My uncle happily picked up Sister Xiaofeng and kissed her, teasing her and saying, "It's not that the clothes dad bought are good-looking, it's because our Xiaofeng looks good!" Sister Xiaofeng was so happy that she couldn't help but smile. .I hid in envy and jealousy, not daring to face the harmonious and happy world of integrating into them. I could only hold my mother's clothes from a distance and secretly watch her holding her brother's hand and playing with my cousins ​​and the others. I feel extremely lost in my heart, thinking that it is great to have a father!Why is it that we are both girls, but she is so happy and I am so unhappy?Just as I was thinking about it, a relative next to me pointed at me and asked, "Whose child is this? Why don't you go play with it?" I shrank back shyly, and then I heard another relative say: "That one is from Wu Mei's family." My eldest daughter, her father ran away because they were girls. I don’t know where he went! It’s very painful for my fifth sister not to see people alive or dead. A woman is raising two children, and she has to be a father at the same time. Damn, she still has to do such extensive farm work, how can she take care of her..." "That's it, this girl looks pitiful when I look at it. Without a man to support a family, the wife and children will suffer a lot." I hurriedly felt sad. I ran to the back room and squatted aside in a daze, thinking, it turns out my dad is like this. It would be great if my dad comes back and the members of the group are happy like Sister Xiaofeng’s family!
(End of this chapter)