Chapter 1 Years of Respect for the Elderly, Full of Desolation
The dawn sun shyly peeked out of the back of the mountain with its little head, the glow of the sun was like a fairy's skirt swaying a graceful arc, the snow-white clouds were endlessly arranged on the blue sky, the sound of insects and frogs in the night was quietly dimmed, the birds and roosters sang the symphony of the early rise, there was a courtyard in the far corner of the mountain village that was out of place in the village, the courtyard design was fashionable and trendy, the courtyard was planted with the most fashionable green plants at the moment, the rest platform made of antiseptic wood Roman fluttered in the wind, and the hazy and wanton Roman thought that the old man with straight back and silver hair cooked tea elegantlyγ
"Alas, today is my 92nd birthday!" the old man looked up at the sunlight in the sky and whispered softly!
"Mom, you say, I still inherited my grandfather, right? Grandpa lived to be 64, my third aunt lived to be 42, my grandmother lived to be 74, and you lived to be 53. I thought I was very much like you, and I would live a very short life, and I was afraid that I would die every day without anyone to take care of my early children! I remember that I was very afraid of death, and since when did I start to be afraid?"
This person is old, and he likes to babble endlessly, if it weren't for the boiling water, he would be old! Helplessly, he still became the kind of person he hated the most! The old man brewed kung fu tea, drank a few sips, and ate a few pieces of dim sum.
"Alas, the old wood can return to spring, but I am a human being! It is the grain of sand that drifts with the tide that will eventually return to the earth!"
"Grandma, what are you chattering about?" As soon as the young woman in the sweatshirt entered the door, she heard the old lady chattering alone, and she was depressed.
Seeing this granddaughter sitting in front of him without grace and staring at herself with big eyes, she smiled helplessly.
"That's how people are old! I feel like I'm not going to live long anymore, it's like saying everything I know and leaving you an experience pack so that you can level up quickly!"
"Then why don't you go with me to my parents and brother to drop the experience bag!
"Don't bother me with chatting with them!"
"Milk, I've never bothered you!"
"But I annoy you, and every day is more chattering than my old lady!"
"What's the matter!" the sister-in-law stared at me with a red face.
"Don't think I don't know, your father asked you to go to work in the company, and you came to me to hide and relax. β
"I don't like things in the company, and besides, there is a brother in the company, why do I have to be tied there. Looking at this little sister-in-law who is complaining in her ear, she seems to see that when she was young, she loved the free and unrestrained little life so much, and she was also lazy to the bone!
"Well, yes, take advantage of your youth to do what you want to do, and you will also be financially free! Go to more places and see the ups and downs of life in this world!"
"Milk, why is it sweet and sour!
"Of course there is, but isn't life unforgettable about those sufferings!"
"I don't understand, I don't understand!"
"If you understand now, then I'll live for so long in vain!"
"Well, I went to take a shower, and I couldn't understand so many feelings!"
"Alas! When people are old, their physical functions have dropped to the limit! The time is near! It's time! I left my hometown at the age of forty, and I haven't been back a few times in decades, and I have returned to my roots and left the last nutrients to the hometown where I was raised! It's time to go back!" As soon as the young woman entered the house, the old lady began to babble again! Drinking the last cup of tea in the teapot, she walked slowly into the house and packed her bags, and when the young woman came to the living room, her jaw dropped.
"Milk, what are you doing, are you trying to drive me away? Oh, no, it's not mine. β
"Girl, take me to the station!"
"Milk, where are you going?"
"I want to go back to where I was born. β
"Then I'll call my dad and sister-in-law. β
"The girl didn't expect you to be such an inkblot person!
"Hmph, you're so old, what's going on, how can I explain to them!"
"What do you need to explain to them, I've lived so long! Do you still want me to participate in the longevity competition? Don't worry, I won't die in time!"
"Grandma!"
"Alas, if you don't send me there, forget it, I'll let Xiao Wang, who delivers vegetables, take me down the mountain! Xiao Wang's car is sad, dirty, and bumpy, and I will take a taxi to the village at the bottom of the mountain! Alas, when people are old, you won't let me drive by myself! It's really a deprivation of my freedom in life! Think of those years when I just said I would go. The reckless age!Sure enough, it's gone!" I began to babble and sell miserably again
"You, you old lady, I can't stand you. Sister Cui, come and help me move things!" "Looking at my granddaughter's bulging cheeks, I sat on the sofa with a smile and ate snacks!
The youngest granddaughter has been the darling of the family since she was a child, and she is also a leader in school, and she has achieved economic freedom before graduating from college, and after graduating from school, she refused all work and home arrangements, and went to the mountains with her luggage to accompany me, an old lady, who wants to be free and resist the work that the family does not like, but I know her dream since childhood, and wants to stand at the top of the world's finance. But she gave up everything to accompany me, and I knew she was not at ease. You want to stay with me.
I will not refuse the child's wishes, and I am also lonely.
Soon we got on the high-speed rail back to our hometown, after decades of changes in the times, the high-speed rail has also undergone qualitative changes, from high-speed to speeding, the carriage is separated, a city and a carriage, the carriage is arranged according to the distance of the city, the last carriage is the next station, fast to the station, the latter carriage detached from the team and entered the deceleration lane, the guests got off the car, the carriage entered the garage to rearrange the order, and re-embarked on its journey. This high-speed and high-paced era is something that people like me can never fit into, so I hid in the mountains!
Returned to his hometown, looking at the layers of high-tech suspension lanes in front of him, the eighteenth-tier city has also been integrated into the ranks of big cities Wanling City, which has been an important city in history for more than 2,000 years, and the traffic extending in all directions has left footprints in history, with the reform and opening up, the reform of transportation, it is no longer so important. From an important city, it has become a small eighteenth-tier city that no one cares about.
As soon as we got out of the station, the luggage robot sent our luggage to the designated pick-up car, and the people in the car came out and handed the contract and car keys to my granddaughter, it seems that she bought another car!
"You buy a car again! Do you know the road? I can't even find out where my home is!" I complained that it wasn't her who bought the car, but that the city had changed so much, the highways and real estate had changed, and I couldn't find where my home was for a long time!
"Milk, don't you believe me?"
"Alas, I can't see the shadow of my childhood at all!"
Sitting in the car, the granddaughter turned on the navigation self-service system. Just talk to me
"Milk, I remember coming here when I was a child, and I've seen a lot of changes, let alone you"
"The current car is so good, you don't have to drive, there is no technical content at all!"
The granddaughter rolled her eyes, didn't say anything, and came to this yard that had not been inhabited for decades, with old doors and barren grass all over the yard, but the house was still very clean, and someone was usually found to clean it.
"Milk, let's go around the difference, I called the housekeeper to clean up, we were too fast, they shouldn't have come yet. β
"Well, okay, let's put things in the living room, let's go see your grandfather and ancestors first. Tell them I'm back!"
"Well, milk, I remember you didn't buy that mountain?"
"Well, yes, the mountain will be renovated later, and I don't want your grandmother and grandfather to be too bumpy, so I bought the mountain and made it into a garden park."
"Milk, you are so creative, the land is so expensive, the place for the ancestors to settle is getting smaller and smaller, you bought two hills to make a cemetery! β
"Isn't that boring to learn garden design? I'm not here to make money, but to let my ancestors and myself have a beautiful place to rest after they die!"
"Who are you going to pass this place on?"
"I'm not dead yet, but I'm thinking about my property?"
"No, I just think whoever took it, I'm very cautious. β
"This cemetery is not profitable, and the management fee collected is just enough to maintain the garden facilities. I'll leave it to you in the future!
"Milk, I don't want it. β
"I don't give it to anyone, a big family, just you are a woman, the woman is careful! The girl remembers that making money is not the main thing, I think the place where I live is beautiful. β
After speaking, he didn't pay attention to him, bought some paper money, and with the change of the times, the rule of burning paper money for his ancestors has not changed at all. The state has also carved it, but it can't stop it, and of course, for safety, I divided the cemetery into several areas, and each area was equipped with fire pipes and fire extinguishers. Of course, there is more money, but the safety of life can also be guaranteed, when it was first implemented, many people argued with me for the high management fee, and gave the demolition cost for the unacceptable, and then the construction was completed, and there were not many graves left, but there were many rich people who came to visit, and many people packed a large piece of land to place their ancestral graves. My cemetery has made headlines later, and some of the big cities have copied it like this, but they have lost the beautiful scenery for the sake of profit.
We came to the gate of the cemetery, sat on the four-wheeled small battery car in the garden, swiped the area card of the cemetery, and the battery car automatically carried us to the highest and quietest cemetery in the mountain.
Not long after I arrived, the gardener sent sacrificial supplies, of course, I set up a hotel here, which can handle funerals, and can also solve the problem of lunch and breakfast when sweeping the tomb, and also provide special sacrificial supplies and food. Of course, the cost is not low. The staff took care of everything and left, leaving my granddaughter and me, and we finished putting incense and paper money one by one, leaving tears in front of my parents' tombstones.
"Mom and Dad, are you okay? Are you still in that world? Or have you been reincarnated? I miss you so much, can I still see you after I die?" Seeing me crying sadly, my granddaughter also silently kept tears. I finished chatting at the graves of my parents and the old man, and just as my granddaughter called to say that the house had been cleaned up, we went back. This time I was really scared to go home and be filled with people!
"Damn, you're all back!" I complained and broke the excitement at home.
"Mom, why did you come back all of a sudden!"
"Yes, yes, Mom, you're back, how can we take care of you! It's so far away!" both my son and Gu Liang stepped forward to accuse me.
"Far away! Far away! You see I've only been back for a few hours, don't you just come back with you? Why! You've bound me for so many years since you were in my belly, and where you are and where I'm here, I'm on the verge of death, can't you give me some freedom? Do you want to tie me to your side and die? I just want to grow old in my last days in a place I know well. Isn't it good?"
"I'm going to go!"
"Then I'll move the headquarters back," the eldest son said stubbornly. I thought about it for a moment before I spoke.
"It's not necessary to move back, you can work here temporarily, I don't have a long time, and it's not good for me to move"
"Milk, it's not for you to move back, it's our roots, I discussed with my father earlier and prepared to move the headquarters back. Milk, you don't have to feel pressure. β
"I don't have any mental pressure, you feel your own affairs, how to choose is up to you, I'm not a businessman, I don't understand the things inside, and I don't participate. "After the matter was decided, everyone chatted about the day, and I wanted to go to bed early at night when I was old, so I went with their own arrangements.
The next morning, I still woke up early, and as usual, I was in the yard making tea and eating snacks. Looking at the weeds all over the yard, I sighed countless times at the growth power of the weeds. When my granddaughter came back, we still acted together, went to the flower and bird market to ask someone to tidy up the yard, and went to the supermarket to prepare some food. When I returned home, I saw a family sitting in the living room, and there was a strange little fresh meat, which looked good.
"Is this guy looking for a boyfriend for the girl?
", no, it's not for my cousin......"
"Milk, my sister is still young......"
............ The voices of seven, seven, eight, and eight were noisy.
"Milk, this is a nurse, I know a lot. We're looking for him to take care of you!"
"What the hell, boy, you've been a nurse at such a young age?"
"Well, yes old lady, I'm from a professional nursing college. β
"Oh, what do young people think now, no matter how much money I give me, I don't want to take care of the old man and the old lady! You can't think about it, child!" Seeing the young man smiling softly, he asked him to go upstairs and find a room to live in by himself.
"Mom, I want Xiaoqian to go to work in the company!"
"Dad, I don't go to the company, I have my own job. I'm not going to work at the company!" said the granddaughter as soon as she heard this.
"Why do you ask me about this? Don't I let her go? Do I tie her up? The eldest son has three grandchildren, and the daughter's family has two grandchildren, but there are no granddaughters. It's just such an old girl, why are you in such a hurry to let her go to work?"
"That's right to grandma," the grandchildren all echoed in unison!
"It's not Mom, it's not a problem for her to float like this. β
"Come on, your daughter has already achieved financial freedom, and she is not idle with me, and she wants to accompany me, an old lady, and I am also very happy. In this way, she will stay with me, don't you want to move the headquarters, and you will leave this matter to her. β
"Milk, I don't want it. β
"It's up to you, your brothers have something to do, and you have to help do what you can,"
This matter was decided, everyone went back together after dinner in the evening, I asked my little granddaughter to go back too, saying that I would go back to the meeting and come again, I ignored them, and sent them all away, I will live my quiet little life, every day is to read books, make tea, illustrate, go to the cemetery.
Until a week after I came back today, as usual, my granddaughter went out to relocate, and I came to the cemetery with the little fresh meat nurse, and today's cemetery was particularly lively, a group of policemen stood in the cemetery restaurant, I thought something was wrong.
"Xiao Fan, can you go and inquire about what's going on?" The little fresh meat nurse has a name named Yan Fan, which sounds a bit like boredom, this child should be annoyed by his parents!
"It's an old cadre who died, and today he is in the ground, and they are here to mourn," I looked at him differently.
"How do you know, didn't you come with me?"
Looking at him with some embarrassment, he said, "Oh, hehe, I have good ears, I heard it." β
"That's great, isn't it, alas, people die like lights go out, is there nothing left when they die?"
"No, Xiaofan has always believed that the soul of a person is after death. They go to the world of the soul. β