Chapter 244: School Anniversary
The old man's life is very dull, her day should be to eat, sleep, and then sit under the banyan tree and look at the scenery, Lin Yu doesn't know how long the old man's state lasts, but she is obviously used to this way of life.
The old man doesn't have many friends, and occasionally a few residents in the alley pass by and will symbolically greet the old man, but there are not too many words between them, at most they just say a greeting, whether they have eaten or not.
Sure enough, there was only a little flower that accompanied her, Lin Yu found that the flower cat and the old man were the closest, as long as the old man sat under the banyan tree, the flower cat would only move around the banyan tree, and would never leave the sight of the old man.
Sometimes Xiaohua would run back to the old man's side, pat the old man's calf with her forelegs, and then make a meow from her mouth. The old man soon understood the meaning of this cry, and a knowing smile appeared on her face, and then she took the little flower on the ground into her arms, and gently ** her palm on its head and neck.
At this time, Xiaohua always enjoys it, it will squint comfortably, stretch its neck as much as possible, and let more parts of its body be in contact with the touch of the elderly.
After a while, the old man's palm would stop, and at this time, Xiaohua's squinting eyes slowly opened again, and it jumped off the old man's knee with another meow, and quickly ran to the butterfly that attracted its attention in the distance.
In his daily life, Lin Yu rarely has such quiet moments, after all, he is surrounded by young people, and the world of young people is usually filled with games, movies, and music.
For example, when Lin Yu is not playing games, he basically wears a pair of headphones in his ears, which will play a variety of his favorite Chinese and English songs on a loop. Because in Lin Yu's view, listening to songs and everything is not in conflict, you can listen to songs when you deliver takeaways, you can listen to songs when you are in self-study, and you can also plug in headphones in one of your ears even if you are chatting with others.
But now Lin Yu suddenly found that there was no music in his ears, so it was actually good to sit quietly like this. Nature has its own sounds, such as the rustle of the wind through the banyan tree, the inadvertent jump of a wave of water, and the call of a small flower to a butterfly. These sounds would make Lin Yu smile unconsciously, and they seemed to naturally form a beautiful piece of music.
Such an environment is easy for people to calm down and think, Lin Yu silently observed the old man, and at the same time was also thinking about what happened between her and her son.
Why didn't the old man go to see her son? Lin Yu thought that the old man might know that the place where her son was living was in a certain unit in Yangcheng or stationed in a certain military camp in the surrounding area, but the old man was forced to meet her son for some reason, so he said an excuse that he didn't remember anything.
Is it because the old man knows that he has been deceived, so he doesn't dare to face his son? Or is there a bad relationship between them? Lin Yu looked at the old man's peaceful demeanor, and couldn't get an accurate result from her facial expressions. Perhaps it was precisely because of the estrangement between the old man and her son that they did not talk on the phone for so long that the old man could not tell the difference between his son's voice and that of a fraudster. Even when he arrived in Yangcheng, the old man did not go to look for his son, but just took photos of the place where he lived as a souvenir, and the normal relationship between mother and son cannot be like this.
After sitting under the banyan tree for more than an hour, the sun began to slowly sink to the west, and the red afterglow colored the heavens and the earth with another color. The old man finally withdrew her gaze from afar, she slowly stood up from the bamboo chair, and whispered to Lin Yu, "Child, let's go home, it's time for dinner." ”
Lin Yu helped the old man back, and the old man said that his body was still strong, and he didn't have to support her all the time, but Lin Yu could see that the old man still enjoyed this kind of care from the younger generations.
Dinner was still eaten at the old man's house, Lin Yu was embarrassed to let the old man work for himself again, so he just heated the leftover vegetables at noon and fried another green vegetable.
Lin Yu finally finished eating the braised fish on the other side, although it had been cold for most of the day, it still tasted delicious. The old man ate less at night, and she said that she was afraid of indigestion after eating too much, so the remaining rice in the rice pot was mixed with some soup and fed to Xiaohua.
Soon after eating, a phone rang in the hall, and Lin Yu knew that the old man's home was equipped with a telephone, but it was usually covered by a cloth, so Lin Yu didn't see it at first.
After the old man picked up the phone, she listened for a while, her face looked very happy, and she finally said, "Got it, I'll be over on time tomorrow morning," and hung up.
The old man took out the old-fashioned camera from her room and looked through the light of the hall a few times, as if to check whether the camera was functioning properly.
"Grandma, are you going to take pictures again?" Lin Yu asked casually when he saw this scene.
The old man nodded excitedly, she told Lin Yu that tomorrow would be the 50th anniversary of her elementary school, and the school invited her to attend again, and handed over the work of taking a group photo to her.
Lin Yu smiled a little helplessly, and muttered in his heart, is there a school celebration in the primary school now? The old man must have lived here all along, so he became a veteran alumnus of that elementary school. But as long as the old man is happy, the old man finds that she has not been forgotten by this society, and she can also do something for the school she once attended, so she will write all the excitement on her face.
The old man went to bed very early at night, and went to her room at about eight or nine o'clock, before that, the old man cleaned up a room for Lin Yu and laid a brand new quilt.
According to the old man, since he was a guest at her house, it was impossible to go out and sleep in the hotel again. There are many empty rooms in her house, and this bed for Lin Yu is not bad at all.
Lin Yu naturally accepted the old man's kindness, he didn't know how long he would stay here, and it was quite a waste to sleep in a hotel every day. However, before the exam week comes, Lin Yu will definitely go back, after all, he still has a goal of not failing the course.
When the old man fell asleep, Xiaohua didn't know where to go, and the whole wooden house instantly became too quiet. Lin Yu sat for a while and felt a little bored, and seeing that it was still early, he decided to go out for a walk first.