Chapter 3: Joy and Sorrow
Compared to her, her grandmother is really good at making white porridge.
After boiling the white rice porridge for 25 minutes, be sure to open the lid and stir for another 10 minutes, which is the last and most critical step.
Grandma wore an old gold bracelet on her thin wrist, and she used to be a bear child, she thought it was ugly, and asked her with disgust if she could take it off, and her grandmother was really angry with her for the first time. Later, she learned that this bracelet originally belonged to her grandmother's mother-in-law, and her grandfather took it to the door to ask for marriage, and put it on her grandmother's hand when she was newly married. Since then, it has not been removed. Maybe it's because the vision is different, but now when I look at this bracelet, it's a bit of an ancient beauty, and gold is a thing that not anyone can suppress, and a bad one is vulgar. Grandma doesn't make people feel this way at all, this bracelet is no longer thin and white and tender and no longer full of vitality, it is not ugly, it only makes people feel that they complement each other.
"What's the fuss? Go get the dishes and chopsticks. β
"Bh. Ruan Wan answered, and put the steamed buns on a plate, and took out a small stack of leftover lotus root slices from the previous mealβthis thing she liked best, appetizing and delicious. After eating it for so many years, my grandmother still made the best.
Over the years, Ruan Wan has eaten countless kinds of breakfast, but compared with each other, her favorite is really like this.
The white rice porridge is boiled extremely glutinous, full of rice oil when drunk in one gulp; the pickled lotus root is spicy and crispy, and there is a bit of appetizing acidity; the steamed buns are filled with a bite, and the flavor is incomparably delicious. So, I accidentally ate it. Fortunately, it's okay to eat more in the morning, so you won't toss and turn like you eat too much for dinner and can't sleep.
After the meal, she took the initiative to clean up the dishes.
Grandma stopped her: "Xiaowan." β
"Huh?"
"Why do you suddenly remember to do laundry and prepare breakfast?"
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"The porridge is quite authentic, I haven't taught you this, when did you learn it?"
Ruan Wan's movements paused, she could say, "I usually see you do a lot, and you will naturally learn", but for some reason, she just didn't want to lie to the old man in front of her. So she remained silent.
This silence lasted only for a short time, and a warm hand broke the momentary embarrassment - Ruan Wan raised her head and looked at her grandmother who was touching her head with some surprise, and got a warm smile.
"Silly girl, if you don't want to say it, don't say it, grandma won't force you. β
Ruan Wan had just shown a moved expression, and her love was sunk by her grandmother's next sentence-
"It's really shameful to always cry when you're so old. β
ββ¦β¦ I didn't cry. β
"Well, I know, it's a little bit close. β
Ruan Wan: "......" always tells the truth, can you still communicate happily?
After laughing happily, my grandmother stood up and walked towards the living room, muttering as she went, "It's so comfortable to pick up the clean bowl and put down the dirty chopsticks." β
Ruan Wan laughed and stacked the dishes and chopsticks, "pick up the clean bowl and put down the dirty chopsticks" is a local dialect, and it is a derogatory dialect, and it is suspected that she will not do anything. Grandma used it to describe a comfortable life, and she was the kind of person she spoke in the dialect before today, so she subtly felt that she had been hit by an arrow in the knee, and she was even more drunk.
After a while, the TV in the living room sounded.
Ruan Wan listened to the pretty and changeable Yue Opera while washing the pots and dishes.
In the following time, my grandmother seemed to have fully accepted the fact that she was "suddenly diligent", and did not stop her from doing laundry and cooking, nor did she stop her from cleaning, but would act as a "life teacher", teaching her some useful common sense from time to time that could make meals more delicious. Ruan Wan in her previous life never knew that a simple home life could be so happy, which calmed people's whole hearts. When you touch your chest, you can really feel it there. There was no wandering, no fragmentation, no panic, just being there in peace, being cared for.
This indescribable calm made her wish that life would continue like this. But this is obviously impossible, life cannot be unchanged, and she ...... I want to meet him again.
Early in the morning, when my grandmother came back from going out, she brought back a new hot water bottle and a few pork ribs, because Ruan Wan had leg cramps when she slept last night, and after discussing it, the two agreed that it was a lack of calcium, and they could boil a pot of lotus root pork rib soup to drink.
Therefore, among the bone broth, Ruan Wan's favorite drink is lotus root pork rib soup, the lotus root is fragrant, and the soup is not greasy. So she happily came up to pick up the ribs, but she didn't think that she would be struck by lightning in the next second-
"Just now at the butcher's shop, I saw Mr. Zhang. She reminded me not to forget to ask you to sign up the day after tomorrow, by the way, have you finished your winter vacation homework?"
Ruan Wan's whole person was petrified on the spot.
Registration, registration?
Winter Vacation Homework ???
When she came back from rebirth, she had a very comfortable life, and she completely forgot that she was still a student! Even more forgot that she was now the winter vacation of the first year of junior high school!!
Seeing her granddaughter stunned in the wind on the spot, her grandmother sighed: "I'll boil this soup." β
"Grandma ......" Ruan Wan blinked, looked at her grandmother pitifully, and tried to ask for help, such as telling the teacher that "Ruan Wan has been sick recently and can't do her homework" or something like that.
Grandma sighed again: "Oh, I'm old, my back hurts when I stand for a while, go back and rest for a while." β
Then, she entered the house irresponsibly, leaving Ruan Wan standing in place and vomiting three liters of blood - Grandma, why do you sell your teammates so much!
She retreated back to the bedroom, and after rummaging around, she finally found her bag in the corner of the table. Looking at this state, it is estimated that it has not been opened since the beginning of the winter vacation. She didn't like to study in her previous life, and her grades in junior high school were mediocre for three years, and she came over there...... It's even more difficult to keep up. Desperate to death but helpless, after crying to her mother, her mother asked Jo, who was one year younger than her, to help her with tutoring. Joe's homework was indeed better than hers, but for her at the time, it hurt her self-esteem too much, and since then, she has been even more reluctant to forge ahead, and in the end, she is not enough to meet the average college score. In the end, it was Joe's wishful father, her titular stepfather, who helped her and stuffed her into a regular university.
To sum up, learning this thing has never been her forte.
But not in this life, although she knows that he never cares about this, she doesn't want to be too far away from him.
It is said that "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step", so every qiΔ starts with winter vacation homework!
Then the question arises, what are these familiar but completely incomprehensible topics???
Ruan Wan knelt down for junior high school math on the spot. Don't look at this as a small town, but the teacher is extra responsible, and the homework answers are torn up - in fact, this is normal, the villagers, if any teacher loses his responsibility and allows the students to go free, everyone will poke the backbone in the back, and the old man and grandmother with a bad temper dare to jump on their feet and scold or even do their hands. Dare to fight back? Hey, when the other young people on the street are decorations?
Ruan Wan really wants to lose the messy homework in her hands, and whoever she loves to do it. She has never had a bad temper in her previous life, don't look at how well-behaved she pretends to be in front of some of them, in fact, it can really be said that she exploded at one point. Then he always hugged her from behind and whispered-
Close your eyes and take a deep breath. β
Exhale slowly. β
"Take another deep breath. β
"Do you feel a little better?"
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In fact, his methods didn't work for her, and it was always his deep and nice voice that calmed her down - she was a bit voice-controlled, so when she concentrated on listening to a certain sound, it was easy to forget about other things.
Probably used to it, after he was gone, when she was irritable, she always closed her eyes and took a deep breath before exhaling. Whenever this happens, Ruan Wan always feels that he is behind her, clasping her waist with warm hands. Thinking about it, she gradually calmed down.
Now that she can't get over this little hurdle, how can she be embarrassed to blend in with the ranks of the Rebirth Party?
The teacher is very kind, and she doesn't assign any extra homework except for winter vacation homework, so her "work" is only in front of her. There are seven subjects in the first year of junior high school, three main subjects in Chinese, mathematics and English, and four minor subjects in politics, geography, history and biology.
Among them, Mathematical Biology ...... Let's put it aside, math is a little better, math is easy in the first year of junior high school, as long as you read all the formulas once, you can still do it. As for the living ...... She had forgotten all about it, and it took too much time to re-read the textbook.
The language is still no problem, she has been good at Chinese since junior high school, and the same is true in high school, she also studied Chinese in college, and the work she engaged in after graduation can barely be called a writing job.
As for English, she followed him to live abroad for a few years after she got annoying. Under the pressure of the environment, she quickly changed from the initial "foreign language literacy" to "daily foreign language proficiency", which also proves that human potential is really infinite.
Nowadays, the geography and history are quite easy, and it is easier to find the answer than by looking at the catalog.
Ruan Wan waved her pen while waving her pen with tears in her eyes, fortunately it is winter vacation, fortunately the winter vacation homework is relatively thin, fortunately, the teacher will not read the winter vacation homework word by word, and some places can still be fooled, otherwise it will really kill people!
Even so, it took her two full days to process the five winter vacation assignments.
In her previous life and this life, it was the first time she had "studied hard" like this, and in the end, even if she closed her eyes at night, there were all kinds of words related to textbooks and homework floating in front of her. She was really miserable about it, but her grandmother seemed to be quite happy to hear about it, and the meal was sumptuous, which really made Ruan Wan painful and happy.
It was another morning, and Ruan Wan, who had eaten and drunk enough, sat at the table, staring blankly at the math and biology homework in front of her, only feeling that there was nothing to love - she, the reborn party, had already bowed to the big scud of the homework demon king!
Right now......