Chapter 12: Grandma
Lin Xiao returned to Nanze, it was already noon, he hurriedly ate something, and went to the gardener's community to borrow money, ready to pay the tuition fee, the only uncle is a teacher, buy a house and live there!
The neighborhood has become very old, and I don't know if there are any people living here.
"Knock knock!" Lin Xiao knocked on the door, the last time he came was more than ten years ago, and he came with his mother, but now that his mother has passed away, he feels sad when he thinks about it.
Fortunately, Nanze has not changed for more than ten years.
Fu Xingsheng had just picked up the bowl to eat, and when he heard a knock on the door, he couldn't help frowning.
Deng Xiaocui kicked him from the table, his eyes widened: "Didn't you hear the knock on the door?"
Fu Xingsheng obediently put down the dishes and chopsticks and opened the door.
"Ahh
"It's me, uncle!Lin Xiao!" Lin Xiao pushed open the door and walked in.
"Ah, you're Xiaoxiao!" "Come, eat!" Fu Xingsheng was about to take the dishes and chopsticks, but Deng Xiaocui glanced at him fiercely.
Of course, this can't escape Lin Xiao's eyes: "No, I've eaten!" stopped Fu Xingsheng.
Although Fu Xingsheng was angry with his wife, he had suffered for half his life and was used to it, so he found a stool for Lin Xiao to sit down and eat by himself!
"Xiaoxiao!" the door opened, and an old man walked out on crutches.
"Grandma?" Lin Xiao grabbed over and hugged the old man, "Have you eaten?"
The old man looked gloomy and shook his head.
Deng Xiaocui saw the old man shaking his head, he was unhappy, and threw the chopsticks on the table with a "snap", "Where are the noodles that were cooked for you in the morning?"
The old man clenched his cane tightly and said nothing.
Lin Xiao suddenly understood that it was a problem for her grandmother to dare to eat at her uncle's house, not to mention any other aspects.
"The most poisonous woman's heart!" Lin Xiao stared at Deng Xiaocui and said.
"Who are you talking about!You little wild seed!" Deng Xiaocui stood up and crossed his waist, "Fu Xingsheng, drive this wild seed out, who told you to let it in?"
Lin Xiao was furious, this aunt's black-hearted viciousness is really rare, how can she stand scolding herself for being a wild seed!
"It's for my grandmother!"
The old man's lips moved, he didn't say anything, but he took Lin Xiao's hand.
"You dare to beat me, Fu Xingsheng, look at the good things you have done!" Deng Xiaocui covered her beaten face and yelled at Fu Xingsheng, but she was afraid that she would not be able to beat Lin Xiao, so she didn't dare to do it herself.
"Xiaoxiao, how can you do it? Anyway, she is also your aunt!" Fu Xingsheng put down his chopsticks and was now in front of Lin Xiao.
"Hmph!" Lin Xiao looked at the strict wife in front of him and felt sad for him!
"That's how you treat Grandma?"
Fu Xingsheng felt guilty about his mother, so he naturally didn't think of avenging his wife, so he looked at Lin Xiao helplessly and said, "Since your parents died, your grandmother has been worse day by day, and I have done my best!"
Fu Xingsheng's words were ambiguous, and the purpose was to shirk responsibility.
Lin Xiao knew that his uncle was not bad-hearted, but he was too weak, he was controlled by his wife in everything, and he didn't want to blame him.
Deng Xiaocui quit: "Fu Xingsheng, you unproductive man, if you don't give the old lady out of anger today, the old lady and you are not finished!"
"You don't have to say a word!" Fu Xingsheng turned back to Deng Xiaocui and said.
Deng Xiaocui was furious: "Your wife was bullied by outsiders, you don't even dare to put a fart, you have been stabbed a thousand times!" sat on the ground and cried.
Lin Xiao looked back at her grandmother, and the old man pulled Lin Xiao and walked out tremblingly.
"Mom, where are you going?" Fu Xingsheng hurriedly asked after all, after all, mother and son were connected.
The old man turned his head slowly: "I'll go down for a while, you serve her first!"
Lin Xiao helped her grandmother go downstairs and sit down.
"Grandma, how uncomfortable are you!" The last time Lin Xiao saw her grandmother, although her waist was a little rickety, it was not as serious as this time.
The old man shook his head, she was now seventy-six years old, and she could live one day at a time, and she didn't go to the hospital for examination.
"Xiaoxiao, it's almost October, go to your mother's grave!"
"I'll go!" Lin Xiao nodded, took the old man's hand, and signaled the pulse.
There is no big problem, the deterioration of gastrointestinal function, coupled with bad thoughts, long-term malnutrition, the key is lumbar disc herniation, and the lack of effective treatment, resulting in rickets!
"I heard that you are also missing, I have not been able to sleep, and I dream every day that your mother told me that I didn't take a good look at you!"
"Isn't this okay for me?" Lin Xiao looked at the wrinkled face that had worked hard for her children all her life, and her heart became more and more uncomfortable.
"It's okay, or I'll tell you how to see your miserable mother!" the old man leaned on crutches, as if talking to himself, and as if to confide.
"It's okay, grandma, isn't it my uncle who won't even let you eat enough!" Lin Xiao was anxious to confirm.
The old man didn't admit it, nor did he deny it, and said slowly: "Don't blame your uncle, he's pitiful, I can live for a few more years!"
"How can this work?" Lin Xiao didn't understand why this was the case, and her grandmother still had to protect her son.
"Your uncle is under a lot of pressure, he has to repay the loan, he has to tell your cousin about his family, and he has to provide for your cousin's school!
Lin Xiao nodded, this is the truth, a family depends on his salary income, then Deng Xiaocui has no source of income, and it is indeed not rich, thinking of this, his anger towards Deng Xiaocui is a little less.
"Are you cured?" asked the old man again. "When you went out at the age of nine, I haven't seen you a few times, I'm afraid it will be even harder to see you in the future!"
"It's totally good!" Lin Xiao nodded, "I went out to work, met an old Chinese medicine doctor, and quickly healed me!"
The old man was very pleased: "That's good, your mother has a spirit in the sky!
"In addition, I also need a prescription for a herniated lumbar disc, I'll go get you the medicine later!" Lin Xiao had an idea.
A smile appeared on the old man's face, "Okay, my grandson is still good to me!"
In fact, the old man didn't care whether the disease was good or bad, and he was very happy when he heard that Lin Xiao was getting better.
"Uh-huh, then I'll go get you medicine first!" Lin Xiao said eagerly.
The old man took Lin Xiao's hand: "Don't worry, grandma will give you something!" As he spoke, he took out a plastic bag from inside his clothes, which was wrapped in several layers of cloth!
"This is what I left for you!" Brie was carrying a silver ring and some money, one dime and five cents, the largest was ten yuan, a thick stack, and I don't know how many!
As soon as Lin Xiao saw it, tears flowed down her cheeks!
"Grandma is afraid that she won't see you getting married, this is the money I have saved for many years, and I will use it to buy a wardrobe when I get married in the future! This ring is left to my future granddaughter-in-law!" The old man stretched out his wrinkled hand and wiped Lin Xiao's tears!
"Grandma!" Lin Xiao couldn't hold back her sadness at all, and her tears remained like a flood bursting the embankment.
"Good! they're all big men, why are the tears so shallow?"
Lin Xiao didn't refuse, took the bag, and squeezed it tightly in his hand!
After calming down for a while, Lin Xiao put the things given by her grandmother in her canvas bag and said to the old man: "Grandma, you just wait for me here, I'll go and get you medicine!"
The old man nodded: "Grandma is here, don't go anywhere!"
Lin Xiao almost rushed to the nearby Chinese medicine pharmacy, and after learning medical skills for so long, he was already familiar with the prescription for this common geriatric disease, so he hurriedly grabbed a few pairs and ran back.
The old man saw Lin Xiao running and running back, and said, "What's the hurry! It's not a big problem!"
Lin Xiao handed the medicine to her grandmother, thinking that she would not find a place for her grandmother to live, but quickly denied her idea, perhaps the most feared thing for the elderly is not illness, but loneliness! No matter how unfilial his son is, it is his own son. So Lin Xiao sat for a while, and then sent the old man back, but he didn't enter the door or borrow money.
The old man didn't ask Lin Xiao's plans, and Lin Xiao didn't say, maybe, in the old man's heart, no matter what he does, as long as he is healthy and safe.