You watched me from childhood to growth, I watched you from youth to maturity. I still remember a lot of time over the years, and I don’t know how much you still remember.

My aunt is a few years younger than my father and has a good relationship with her father. Although she is a cousin, the two are better than brothers and sisters, and they are inseparable from childhood. Both of them like to study, but unfortunately, my father finally gave up on studying, so his education is only about high school, but my aunt insists on finishing her studies until she finishes her normal university and finally becomes a great people's teacher.

When the old house was still there, I mentioned before that. Although my aunt was a girl, she looked like a boy. She dared to play with things that boys dared to play with. She also liked to play with boys since she was a child. My father was very smart when he was a child, and my grandfather and mother-in-law did not object to her playing with her father. My father watched her grow up since childhood. Although my aunt went to college later, the relationship between the two was still not bad.

I heard that my father got married and had children was one of the happiest people. I don’t know what it would be like to see his brother marrying and having children. Maybe it was happiness, maybe it was reluctance, or maybe it was nostalgia. If I had a second mother, she would be considered a good thing for me, although I have not been very sensible since I was a child, but looking back, she is really good to me.

"Brother, can we get married together when we grow up? If you marry a wife, I will get married."

"OK."

This is a conversation between a pair of childhood siblings. In their world, they are the closest siblings. My father is quite satisfied with his sister, at least she is no less intelligent than herself, otherwise she would not be able to be admitted to Normal University. My aunt has often studied outside in the past two years and rarely comes back. Every time she comes back, the two meet for a short time. This always reminds the two of them that when they were young, the father placed bets on the gambling table, and the aunt looked at the child who was really spitting in the cradle.

...

"Brother, look at these rape flowers, they are so beautiful."

My father and my aunt ran to the rapeseed field by the river to play. He originally wanted to take Ahai to play with the water. But Ahai couldn't come with Grandma Huang to plant rice seedlings. So he took his sister to see the rapeseed flowers. My sister couldn't swim so he couldn't get into the water. Otherwise, what if something happened to my sister accidentally?

In my aunt's impression, my father is a boy who is particularly good at playing. There are many fun places near this village that she doesn't know about, which my father took him to. Every time he goes there, there are different scenery. The two of them will also play different games nearby, but they will not play hide-and-seek every time.

My aunt was curious why her father didn't let her play hide-and-seek with him. My father always said that hide-and-seek was too dangerous and what to do if she couldn't find her sister. But this time my aunt was determined to play hide-and-seek with her father:

"Brother, can we play hide-and-seek?"

The father shook his head decisively:

"No, I have said before that I can't play hide-and-seek, and this time I can't do it either."

The aunt pulled her father's sleeve and started acting cute:

"Oh, brother is fine. I must find a safe place to hide and will not cause any trouble. Believe me, okay? Let's play once, just play once."

My father thought for a while, then looked at his sister's pitiful little face and nodded.

My aunt likes to hide, so my father can find her. In the past, when she was playing at home, my aunt would be caught by her father very quickly, and every time she didn't want to play, she decided to find a good place to hide and try to finally run out and scare her brother. So she ran to the other end of the rapeseed field, and after running for a distance, she saw a small shed, so she got in and hid behind the straw.

The two agreed that it would take a hundred seconds for my father to go out to find him. My father stood by the river and blindfolded his eyes:

“1,2,3,4,5…”

In fact, it was quite slow to count in a hundred seconds. When my father counted and opened his eyes, he could no longer see his sister. In fact, the hardest thing to find was the rapeseed field. If his sister had a petite figure hiding inside, it would take a lot of time. So his father found a stick and began to look for his hiding sister in the rapeseed field that was already taller than his neck. However, the weather was hot and the rapeseed field was so big, but he had not seen where his sister was. So he had an ominous premonition in his heart and began to call his sister:

"Lingling, where are you? Lingling, come out. Don't scare brother, come out first, let's not play anymore, okay? Brother admits defeat, brother can't find you. Come out quickly, brother takes you to play somewhere else and buy you your favorite candied haws. Lingling, come out quickly, Lingling..."

The father and daughter knew very well that if they could not call their sister out with candied haws, they could only explain two things: the first is that she was angry, and the second is that she didn't hear it at all.

At that time, my father concluded that his sister must have run away, so he walked out of the rapeseed field and looked around. He saw that there seemed to be a small black shed in the distance, and my sister might have been hiding in it. She had been hiding for so long, and in such a hot day, it was obvious that the straw was placed in that place. He would not cause heatstroke. Thinking of this, my father ran over quickly. When he was about to get into the shed, he heard the cry of a little girl.

He immediately recognized that it was his sister's crying, and he rushed into the shed. He saw his sister curled up in a corner and cried. There were three vipers not far in front of her, called the earthen turtle snake in the local area. His father knew that this was a poisonous snake, and it was a very fierce snake. He would suffer if he was bitten. He finally knew why he hadn't found his sister for so long, and why he hid here and cried.

My sister was most afraid of snakes since she was a child. She saw three snakes in front of her. My father could not imagine the fear in her heart now. Although she was not afraid of snakes, her father was still in awe in the face of such poisonous snakes. It would be impossible to just go up and catch the snake out and throw it away. One was quite certain, and it would be a fool of three days. But my sister is now in a frightened state. What should I do if I don’t drive these snakes away?

"Sister, don't cry. Brother, find a way to drive these things away. Don't make a sound first, don't move and stay there. Wait for a moment, brother, come here immediately."

The aunt raised her head and saw her brother, as if she had seen the dawn. Since childhood, he has been the person he trusted the most. No matter what danger he faced, it seemed that as long as he had an older brother, it would be fine. My father found a box of matches from outside (actually, he wanted to learn to smoke at that time, but was afraid that his sister would complain to him and said he had matches on her body). He lit a match and threw it in the direction of the three snakes. The straw around the snake instantly ignited, and the snakes hurriedly left when they saw the fire. The father took this opportunity to rush into the shed and picked up his aunt and ran out quickly. The fire spread throughout the shed in a slight slight time.

After burning someone's shed, my father quickly pulled his sister away. If someone knew about it, something would happen. My aunt was relieved of the shock just now and happily ran forward with her brother. I don't know how long it took for my father to rest:

"How is Lingling? Are you still afraid? If you are afraid that my brother will take you to the street to buy candied haws."

The aunt shook her head:

"I'm not afraid anymore, but candied haws are still indispensable."

My father shaved her nose with his index finger:

"Little greedy."

...

It had been a long time since the incident happened. Later, the two people heard that there was a person who raised a poisonous snake on the riverside to make medicinal wine and all the poisonous snakes were burned to death by a fire. In fact, there were countless such snakes in the straw shed, and the three were just running out. What my aunt did at that time was the opening of the snake cellar. If she had known at that time, she would have been scared to death.

However, later this incident only became a joke between two people.

My aunt hugged me and taught me to speak in dialect while shaking lightly and gently:

“Baba, baba, baba, call me baba.”

The mother smiled and looked at her aunt:

"He is still young and can't speak."

"It's okay, I'll just teach you slowly. My brother is so smart and his son must be very smart too. Yes, ordinary."

My aunt continued to teach me to call her:

"baba,baba,baba..."

My eyes looked at her, and just as she was about to put me down, two inconsistent sounds popped out of my mouth:

“ba…ba.”

This made the two of them very happy. This was the first time I spoke out language that humans could understand. And the first person I called in this world was my aunt, that is, those two simple sounds: baba.

My father didn't care much about this matter. He could speak, just say, as long as Xue Jiao called her father in the future. Besides, Baba sounds more like her father, maybe she just called him, anyway, he comforted himself so much.

Seeing that I was tired, my aunt put it next to my mother and let me sleep. When she went downstairs, my father broke a bowl of soup for her.

"Brother, what kind of soup is this?"

"I heard from your mother that you didn't eat. This is the leftover soup at noon. It's quite delicious, so I brought it to you."

"What's the big piece of stuff here? What kind of soup is this?"

"It's the thing you like the most."

"What's it?"

“Snake soup.”

My aunt was so scared that she quickly put the bowl of soup back on the table:

"No, no, I won't drink it."

My father laughed a few times:

"Silly girl, why are you so stupid after reading so many books? How can I not know that you are afraid of snakes? This is eel soup. My grandma heard that you are going to come back to prepare for you. I have nothing to drink. You can drink it quickly."

"You said that when she was a child, she always gave you delicious food. Now, she gave me this to me and it is clear that you will eat better."

"Who made me a man?"
Chapter completed!