Chapter 9: Guan Ju
After posting the circle of friends, Lin Jiaming felt a trace of warmth in his heart, and that warmth seemed to come from the only warm sun in this winter, but now, the snow outside the house is falling heartily, where does the warm sun come from?
"Jiaming...", perhaps too intoxicated by the warmth in the heavy snow, Lin Jiaming didn't hear his grandmother's shouts.
"Jiaming?" Grandma raised her voice. But grandma's voice, no matter how high or low, always makes Lin Jiaming feel at ease. Whenever he encounters any difficulties, he only needs to make a phone call with his grandmother and listen to her call his name, and then he will calm down again.
"Hey! here!" Lin Jiaming put his mobile phone in his trouser pocket. On such a cold day, he still only wears a single pair of pants, which is a bad habit he has developed over the years.
"Grandma, what's wrong?" Lin Jiaming returned to the room and sat on the bench next to the fire pit. Lin Jiaming was brought up by his grandmother and has been living with his grandparents in a civil structure house in the countryside. This kind of house, the foundation is piled up with mountain stones, the walls are built up by loess, tamped, and finally the fir wood is used as the beam, and the Tsubaki tree board is used as the backing, and the mountain stone slab is covered. Although it does not have the red bricks and white walls of the city, it is also a frequent visitor to landscape paintings.
Lin Jiaming's grandfather read before liberation and was considered an intellectual. escaped the doom of being arrested during the rule of the Kuomintang, and fortunately ushered in the founding of New China. In that era when there were very few scholars, my grandfather joined the party and became a township government secretary. Influenced by his grandfather, Lin Jiaming loved this land deeply in his bones. His name, Jiaming, was also given by his grandfather. The implication is to remember the good. Grandpa left them when Lin Jiaming was in high school.
"Come, taste this cake!" Grandma handed Lin Jiaming a cake with her rough, cracked right hand. The cake, which is made by grinding young corn into a pulp, then adding flour and chopped chili peppers, was a favorite of Mr. Lam as a child. After work, Lin Jiaming used his first month's salary to buy a refrigerator for his grandmother. This refrigerator was used by my grandmother to put all kinds of mountain and wild ingredients, all of which Lin Jiaming loves to eat.
Lin Jiaming took the cake, it was very hot, so he had to blow it while changing it in both hands. And my grandmother took out the cake from the pot, but it didn't make people feel that the cake was very hot at all.
"You child, what month is this? Wear so little! Wear a little more, you will be older in the future..."The grandmother was suddenly stunned, she knew that at this time, she should not mention the deceased wife. In this child's heart, he and his deceased wife are particularly soft and sensitive existences.
"Jiaming. Grandma digressed.
"Grandma, this cake is still so delicious. Lin Jiaming's heart ached, and he hurriedly took a big bite of the cake and swallowed the uncomfortable one.
"Have you talked about a girlfriend?" A few years ago, Lin Jiaming was in school, and his grandmother was inconvenient to ask anything, but now that he has graduated, she wants to take advantage of her ability to move, and wants to take a look at her future granddaughter-in-law.
"No!" Lin Jiaming's answer made a trace of loss flash in his grandmother's expectant eyes, but fortunately, the dimness of the room perfectly hid this.
"You're not too young, you've graduated now..."Lin Jiaming listened to his grandmother's words, and naturally knew what his grandmother was looking forward to. For so many years, most of my playmates when I was a child have been married and have children, and although my grandmother doesn't say it, she still cares in her heart.
"It's almost there!" Lin Jiaming walked up to his grandmother. The faint light of the snowy day shines through the window, and my grandmother sits in a dimly lit corner, in front of which is a fire pit, the flames swaying up and down from the pile of firewood, and the shadow of my grandmother depicted by the firelight swaying on the wall behind her. I haven't seen it this year, and my grandmother is much older, and her body is much more rickety than before. He wanted to give his grandmother a hug like he did when he was a child, but the adult's arrogance made him stop behind his grandmother, and he didn't open his arms in the end. But he still pressed those big strong hands on his grandmother's shoulders. In his spare time, Lin Jiaming bought a massage-related book and learned how to massage the elderly, as for the original intention, it was because his grandmother had frozen shoulder and cervical spondylosis. Good friend Gu Kai is often pulled by him to practice, and after coming and going, he becomes proficient.
"Jiaming, I'm old, and I don't know when I'm going to return to the mountain, and my only wish now is to see my future granddaughter-in-law, so that when I get there, I can tell your grandfather about it, so that he can be happy and happy." Grandma's words were like a knife, piercing Lin Jiaming's heart. Yes, the son wants to raise but does not wait, as time passes, my grandmother is getting old day by day, and now I am not high or low, how can I put this matter on the agenda? And I haven't met the person I expected! Thinking of this, Lin Jiaming's voice popped out in his heart:
"You've met! It's just that you've coaxed it!"
"Who?"
"She!" Lin Jiaming felt the back of the circle of friends jumping up.
"Would I like to write an unforgettable story with you in the snow?" Lin Jiaming's smile revealed what he was thinking. But looking at the house and the mountain path in front of the house, the warmth in his heart gradually cooled down. Yes, how dare you pursue such conditions? Or wait until the conditions are stable and the conditions improve, and then talk about this matter.
The voice in my heart came out again.
"Look at the grandmother next to you, how many times can you wait with you? Do you want her to regret it?"
Lin Jiaming hesitated again. Except when she was in school, she who showed him the way, she only had a heart for Lu Haowan. He wasn't the kind of person who hesitated, but in his relationship, he hesitated to nothing!
"Grandma, don't worry. When I come back next year, I will definitely let you see your granddaughter-in-law!By the way, grandma, you wait!" After saying that, Lin Jiaming ran to the bedroom and pulled out a box from the suitcase. That's one of the company's rewards at the end of the year for having excellent employees, a smartphone.
"Grandma, this mobile phone is for you, it turns out that the mobile phone battery is not working. This phone can send videos, and you will be able to see me later. ”
"I don't need that. I'm used to using the original one. "Grandma is not very happy to change, after all, smart phones for the elderly, there are a lot of inconveniences, not as simple as the button mobile phone.
"It's okay, I'll teach you. Don't you use that mobile phone? This mobile phone doesn't need to make a call, I applied for a WeChat ID. Wait on it, it's this green, like two pig's noses. I'll still call you a few times a week, but I don't call, I play video..."Lin Jiaming patiently, teaching his grandmother little by little, time passed little by little, and night gradually fell. Everyone in the mountains went to bed early, and my grandmother had already gone to sleep.
Looking at the background in the circle of friends, Lin Jiaming's mind began to appear Lu Haowan's smile again, the smile like the warm winter sun, and the eyes that melted the old snow in his heart.
The mountains in the snow are unusually quiet, with the occasional unknown bird call and the sound of snow falling from the green pines piercing the vast snowy sky, and then returning to calm. Lin Jiaming sat alone in front of the fire, the flames were beating in his eyes, the warmth in the house was in stark contrast to the ice and snow world outside the house, Lin Jiaming's face was slightly red in this warmth.