Holding on to a glimmer of hope, I continued to look for people, and after a while, I finally came to a decent mansion, the door of which was open, and I called outside a few times but no one answered, and then I walked boldly inside.

The structure of this house is very old, it looks like a building in the late Qing Dynasty, at least one or two hundred years old, although it is very old, but perhaps because of the inhabitation, so it is still well preserved, I am glad that I finally will not have that feeling like walking into a dead city.

I walked through the compound to the hall inside, there is a heavenly pond in the middle of the hall, which is a characteristic of southern architecture, generally there will be a heavenly pond in the courtyard, and there is also a heavenly pond in the ancestral hall.

The Tianchi is built in the center of the hall, and when you look up, there is a skylight that is the same length and width as the Tianchi, and whenever it rains, the rainwater will flow down the eaves of the skylight into the Tianchi, and then drain away from the drainage channel of the Tianchi.

There are many people who don't understand, and they may think that why do they have to do more, make a heavenly pool, and open a skylight on the roof of the roof to have nothing, but this may be a common custom among southerners.

Generally, if there is no skylight in a large house like this, then the interior will be dull all day, but if there is a skylight in the center, the whole house will be very bright during the day.

Just as I was looking at the house with great interest, I suddenly found that there was a black figure opposite, which immediately startled me, and my little heart immediately "plopped" and beat faster, almost scaring me unconscious.

At first I thought it was hell, because the black figure was looking at me motionless, and it still looked very old, so it was not surprising that it could scare me.

I forced myself to calm down, and I looked closely at the black figure, only to find that there was an old man in his nineties opposite, dressed in black, who was sitting on a chair at this time, looking at me with a serious expression and motionless.

I took a serious look before I was sure that it was an old man, if it weren't for the fact that he still had some blood on his face, I would really think of him as a ghost, but then I thought about it was almost noon, how could there be a ghost?

I stepped forward and asked softly, "Hello old man, are you the owner of this mansion?" ”

The old man looked at me, but he was silent for a long time, and after a long time, he said slowly, "You, you finally came, I thought I couldn't wait for you to come." His expression was still serious, and the tone of his voice was not in keeping with his age, as powerful as that of a middle-aged man.

"Wait for me? Grandpa, do you know me? "I'm curious, how can this be? This old man spoke strangely.

"You're Lee Min-deok's granddaughter, right?" The old man asked.

Li Minde is my grandfather, if his grandfather is still alive, he is now in his nineties, I nodded and said, "Hello grandpa, my name is Li Liangxi, and Li Minde is my grandfather." ”

"Is your grandfather still there?" At this time, the old man's tone softened a lot.

I shook my head, "My grandfather died years ago. ”

"Alas..."The old man sighed heavily, and then said: "My childhood friend, I didn't expect that after more than 80 years, it is already yin and yang, and I still look forward to seeing each other again in my lifetime." ”

"Grandpa, are you familiar with my grandfather?" I asked.

"It's not just familiar, at that time it was a good brother who wore a pair of pants and two people." The old man said and silently wiped away a handful of tears.

It is said that when people are old, they will always be easy to feel more, and seeing the old man like this, I can imagine how good their relationship was before, but it is a pity that life is inherently dead, and if someone can still mourn for it after death, it is also worth it.

"Grandpa, don't be sad, birth, old age, sickness and death are inevitable, by the way, why do you still live here? Are you living here alone? ”

Later, I learned from my grandfather that when he was 10 years old, that is, more than 80 years ago, before our family moved to Beijing, my grandfather, who was in his 60s at the time, had visited him.

Grandpa Taizu gave him a large sum of money and asked him to keep a promise, that is, to wait for someone in his hometown, that is, me, at that time, the old grandfather took the money, and sure enough, he kept his promise and stayed here.

And his children and grandchildren, when the old man was fifty years old, took out the money and bought a house in the city and moved out, and I asked him why he didn't move out with him.

He said that since he promised my grandfather, he couldn't break his promise, and he had such a good relationship with my grandfather.

In fact, in the first twenty or thirty years, my grandfather had contact with him, because there was a landline at that time, but then the contact gradually became less and less over time, and then there was no contact.

Although the relationship between the two old friends has faded, the old man has always kept this promise and has never moved out of here.

I also heard him say that the wealthy families in this square area have already moved to the city, while those with poor conditions have moved to a place at the end of the village and built a two- or three-story building.

Hearing this, my heart suddenly turned cold, an old man in his nineties, living alone in this almost deserted village, and I don't know how he lives.

I asked him why his children didn't come back to take care of him, and he said that when their children and grandchildren have money, how can they remember me? At this moment, I feel so pitiful for him, what did he get for everything he gave for his children?

I took out 30,000 yuan from my bag and handed it to him, "Grandpa, you accept this money, just as a little bit of my heart as a junior." ”

He pushed it over, "No, no, no, I'm old, I don't need this money, you can keep it for yourself!" ”

I forced the money into his arms, "Grandpa, no matter what, you must accept this money, this is what our Li family owes you." ”

He smiled helplessly, "Silly girl, what is there to owe?" This is my promise to your family, and I have stuck with it because it is the most basic trust between people. ”

I lowered my head embarrassedly, after all, just because of a promise, an old man has been struggling for a lifetime, and he has not been able to enjoy the joy of family, and I feel that no matter how much money I have, I can't make up for it.

Later, my grandfather told me that the reason why my great-grandfather asked him to wait for me here was because he had something to give me, and then he asked me to go to a place with him.

The old man went to a small room on the side of the yard, and took out a farming shovel from it, the one that was taller than mine.

I stepped forward to take it, "Grandpa, let me get it." ”

The old man shook his head with a smile and said, "No need, you can't do this job." ”

Later, I found out that the old man's body is quite tough, his waist is very straight, and from the back, he doesn't look like a ninety-year-old man at all, but like a middle-aged man in his fifties.

Then I followed him all the way out of the village, and walked around the village for about ten minutes, stopping on a small hill......

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