Chapter 26: Don't Learn from Me
The next day, Ruan Wan and the others returned to the town with the car.
Compared with leaving, many girls were depressed when they came back, on the one hand, they were too tired, and on the other hand, they were also excited when they went.
Nothing to say all the way.
When the car drove into the border of Zeshui Town, the little girls who had been extremely quiet regained their vitality again, and each woke up their sleeping friends next to them, and shouted in a happy tone: "It's home!"
yes, it's home.
Ruan Wan didn't know what the others thought, anyway, when her feet really stepped on the ground, she only felt that the whole person was at ease.
When she said goodbye to her friends and walked back with her things, and could see her home from afar, her grandmother was already standing at the door. Ruan Wan looked at this scene, and a smile naturally appeared on her face, but her grandmother, who also had a smile in her eyes, waved her hand very shamelessly, and shouted from afar: "Why do you walk so slowly with short legs, hurry up!"
Ruan Wan: "Can't ...... let her be moved more?" qaq
She trotted home speechless, and was not surprised to find that the dinner was extraordinarily rich. After a full meal, she took out a small gift for her grandmother from her bag, which was a fan bought from the booth in another town, with a kingfisher painted on it. Grandma said, "This kind of thing is not needed", but her eyes narrowed into two slits. And after Ruan Wan washed her hair and took a bath, she got a "return gift".
Probably because of her background, my grandmother has a lot of good things, and she can give her a little "little surprise" from time to time.
In her previous life, she barely cared about such things, and after her grandmother's death, she was not able to inherit these things. Because...... My grandmother died in a fire, and the entire house was destroyed in the fire. Although the result of the police investigation was an accident, Ruan Wan has always felt that the root cause is actually herself. In this life, this will never happen again.
Grandma also gave her a fan, which looks like an old object, but it is very well preserved. Coincidentally, the fan is also a kingfisher. But there were not one, but two - cross-necked kingfishers. The appearance of this kind of bird that has been slaughtered because of its too beautiful feathers is really quite cute, with blue wings, blue body and yellow belly, and the yellow-white feathers around the eyes are like eyeshadow with long eyes, not to mention how "fashionable". And on this surface, they are deliberately portrayed as fat, as if they can roll around with a poke. However, the birds on this fan are not painted, but embroidered.
Ruan Wan took a closer look and said, "Grandma, it doesn't seem that you embroidered it?" Different people's embroidery work also has different characteristics, Ruan Wan has been learning from her grandmother for so long, she doesn't dare to say anything else, at least she is still very sure of identifying "whether an item is embroidered by grandma".
"Yes, the vision is a little practiced. Grandma praised before saying, "This is what I used when I was young, and I embroidered it at home." She was well-known in the whole province at that time, and if it weren't for her poor health and no offspring, she wouldn't have entered our house. I learned my embroidery from her, but unfortunately, it is still far worse than her. She stretched out her hand and clicked on the fan in Ruan Wan's hand, "Well, this double-sided embroidered fan is a gift she gave me on my twelfth birthday." It's yours now. â
"This thing is precious, isn't it?" Ruan Wan carefully held the fan and looked at it carefully.
"You child," Grandma gave her a disgusted look, "how many times have you said it, and how can it still be like this?" Things are made for use, don't always care about them. â
Ruan Wan, who was disgusted with "spicy vulgarity": "......" grandmother, that's because you have basically never been poor!
After reliving again, I realized that Ruan Wan, who could actually be a rich second generation, suddenly felt a lot of pressure. However, she could have had no worries about food and clothing in her previous life, as long as she hugged the thighs of the Qiao family, but this opportunity was ruined by herself. However, she will not and does not want to take that road again in her life. It was my mother's current home, but it wasn't hers.
Ruan Wan took this fan a few times, and had to admit that this fan was worth a lot of money...... Well, it's no different from a regular fan. In the end, it still turned into a storage zĂ i at the bottom of the box. Ruan Wan carefully preserved it, although even if she ruined it, her grandmother might not be angry with her. It's just that, after all, it is an item kept by my grandmother for many years, and it is also a memory of her youth. It's a shame that it's really broken.
Not to mention......
"Has Grandpa seen this fan?" Ruan Wan asked suddenly.
My grandmother was waiting for this, and when she heard this, she replied proudly, "I took it the first time he saw me." â
Ruan Wan: What's going on with the feeling of "...... stupid man is stunned"?
Although she had roughly guessed this from her grandmother's eyes looking at the fan just now, it was still a little painful now. However, she was also really curious.
"Grandpa, what kind of person is you?"
In her memory, there was no grandfather's existence at all. In her previous life, she also asked her mother, and what she got was a blank expression. Since then, she has known that her grandfather had died when she was still pregnant with her mother. When it comes to the fullest, the marriage time of the grandparents is not more than a year. Looking at her mother, her own face, and listening to what the people in the town said, you can see that my grandmother was a great beauty when she was young, and her family was quite wealthy.
Such a person, if he wants to remarry, he will never worry about finding a partner. To put it mildly, even if grandma wants to find another wife now, there must be an old grandfather to come to the door and line up.
Therefore, Ruan Wan is really curious - what kind of person is her grandfather, who has not had the opportunity to meet, so that her grandmother can guard him for so many years, and so that her grandmother will never forget that time until now.
"He'......" Grandma listened to her question, and her proud expression suddenly became a little distant, as if she was remembering something. After a while, she smiled and said, "He's a good guy." â
"......" is too general an answer, right?
But at the same time, Ruan Wan felt that their ancestors and grandchildren were really similar, because now if someone asked her "what kind of person he is", she could only reply "he is a good person", if he was not so good, how could he like it when he was not so good...... Can it even be said that she is very bad?
Ruan Wan asked again: "Don't you have a photo?"
"Yes. My grandmother replied, "Before the blind date, someone gave me a little picture of him." She recalled, "He was five years older than me, a young master of a family in this province, and he was studying in Nanbin Province at that time, studying at a military school. I was just thirteen years old, and it was summer, and the photos I sent me were only that big. â
Ruan Wantong gestured with her grandmother and judged that the photo was about the same size as the current one-inch photo. She asked, "How's that?"
Grandma raised her hand and patted Ruan Wan's little face, and said, "If he is not good-looking, I will go to see him? If he is not good-looking, I will marry him? If he is not good-looking, you can look so good now? What a stupid child." â
Ruan Wan: "......, grandmother, is it really okay for you to say "I'm just a senior face control"? She swallowed a mouthful of blood and continued to ask, "What about the photo?"
Grandma put a smile on her face: "It's gone." â
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Ruan Wan wanted to ask, "How could it be gone?", but at this moment, she looked at her grandmother's expression and couldn't ask this sentence anyway.
Grandma's original enthusiasm for talking has faded, and she sighed lightly: "When I was young, I always did things like this, impulsive and reckless. She rubbed Ruan Wan's head, "Xiao Wan, don't learn from me at this point." â
ââŚâŚ Well. Ruan Wan felt sad for no reason, and hurriedly lowered her head, nodding to cover up.
There are many things in this world that are helpless.
Among them, the separation of life and death is the most desperate.
When this person's figure really disappears from this world, how can we find it again?
She was lucky enough to get another chance.
Grandma, on the other hand, didn't get this opportunity.
For the first time, she was ashamed of her luck, and at the same time, she was even more determined not to live up to it.
Seeing that the time was not early, Ruan Wan returned to her room with the fan, because her hair was still wet, she didn't sleep for the time being, just sat cross-legged on the bed, looking at the fan in her hand back and forth, thinking about the things in her previous life.
Sometimes smiling, sometimes frowning.
What she didn't know was that in another room with the lights still on, Grandma gently opened the closet. This dark brown wardrobe is warm in color, exquisite in workmanship, gorgeously carved, and has the beauty of years of precipitation. It was the year she left the cabinet, and her mother personally asked someone to beat her. So, don't look at people using these objects, in fact, they live far longer than people.
I remember when he first got married, he still wore the button on the collar and praised this wardrobe for being very beautiful, and now - the wardrobe is still there, where is he? It still looks so beautiful, but she is already dying.
And this wardrobe actually has something inside.
I don't know how my grandmother's hand moved, and a board inside the wardrobe turned around in an instant, and she took out a dark fuchsia box from the dark compartment. If Ruan Wan were here, she would find that the scent from this box was very similar to the comb she was using right now.
The box contained not jewelry or money, but a dozen letters and a handkerchief.
Grandma carefully set aside the letters in yellow shells, picked up the handkerchief at the bottom, and opened it gently, revealing a photograph - a photograph that had been burned most of it.
The part of the face has long been burned, and only the part of the military uniform remains.
And the person who burned it like this was herself.