"I'm sorry for bringing up the sadness. www.biquge.info I couldn't bear to look at the melancholy look on Mi Zhen's face now, but I couldn't help my curiosity and asked, "But I still want to know about your grandfather and grandmother, what is the reason why your grandmother wants to give up everything and leave your grandfather?" Obviously, it is not easy for the two of them to be together, and in order to survive, they have experienced so many hardships together, so they must be together for a long time in the end. But your grandmother eventually separated from your grandfather. ”

Looking at my puzzled look, Mi Zhen pinched the soft flesh of my cheek with her hand: "Sure enough, it's still a child." Although Mi Zhen said this, there was a look of regret in her eyes like me, and the regret of knowledge was mixed with some resentment, "Although we have heard about the hundred days of couples in distress since childhood, this is not suitable for all couples in distress. Of course, I am not denying this statement, after all, there are countless examples in real life to prove the truth of this sentence, but there are also opposite things in this world, some husbands and wives can share hardships but not wealth and prosperity. My grandfather and grandmother were such a husband and wife, they could encourage each other and become dependent on each other in the most difficult times, but after the hardships, they really realized that they were not suitable for each other. Their love is like a shooting star, leaving only the most beautiful shadow in the night sky, but when the day comes, it consumes all the passion. After the war, my grandmother stayed in Shanghai with my grandfather, waiting for news from France, when my grandfather was still looking forward to the safety of his parents, hoping that one day he would be able to meet his wife. The two of them entered the ordinary life of firewood, rice, oil and salt in this kind of waiting. When love intervenes in life, love becomes a condiment. But the young they don't think so, the young they think that love is the whole of life, in the beginning, they do live in their fantasy of a good life, two young people can still get along with each other, continue to run in. But it was full, as the habits and thoughts of the two people kept colliding, problems slowly appeared between the two people. Although the two of them didn't say anything on the surface, it was this lack of communication that made those small contradictions in life like bombs ready to go, waiting for the moment to be ignited. In Grandpa and your father's account of that time, he said that when he received the letter himself to leave for France, the bomb was dyed in the already fragile relationship of the claypot. My grandfather hoped that my grandmother would go back to France with him, after all, the Second World War was over and they should be 'reunited as a family'. But my grandmother didn't have such an idea, although she also left her hometown and came to Shanghai, but my grandmother still lived in her own land and did not lose her roots. My grandfather said that my grandmother felt that if she and her grandfather left, she would go to her roots, become duckweed, and live a wandering life without a fixed place. And the language barrier made my grandmother reluctant to leave my grandfather no matter what, so my grandfather had to leave by himself. He said that his grandmother was very ruthless at that time, saying that if his grandfather left, he would never find his grandmother again and lose his grandmother forever. I have to say that my grandmother's sixth sense is indeed very accurate, and my grandfather really never came back until I went to my grandmother's grave. ”

I still don't understand: "But it's just your grandmother's angry words." ”

At that time, my grandfather thought the same thing, but later he went to France to take care of his parents' funeral and delayed some time, and when he returned to Shanghai, he could no longer find his grandmother. Don't you wonder, why didn't my grandfather come back to find my grandmother, but went to Thailand to develop? Mizhen's soda bottle was also empty, and I followed her into the kitchen when she went to the kitchen to make tea.

"Do you have any fruit here?" I stopped her when she just wanted to casually throw the tea bag into the kettle, "There's a better way to taste it." ”

Mi Zhen looked at me suspiciously, with no doubt in her eyes: "You wouldn't think of making other types of herbal tea, would you?" ”

"Not really." I shook my head like a drum, "I want to make fruit tea, a delicious fruit tea." ”

Mi Zhen opened the refrigerator: "What fruit do you want?" ”

I crossed my fingers and thought as I replied, "Apples, kumquats, strawberries, and lemons." If you don't have lemons, you can use oranges instead. Forget it, there are no oranges at all in this weather. What fruits do you have? ”

Mi Zhen sighed and closed the refrigerator door: "There are only watermelons cut into various shapes, forget it, let's go out and buy them." With that, he picked up the key and beckoned me out with him.

The sun was still hot at noon, and the asphalt seemed to be white from the scorching heat. Mi Zhen took the parasol, looked up at the big sun, and began to sigh again.

"Don't sigh, luck will slip away." I also got under the parasol, and Mizhen raised it a little higher.

"But you haven't solved my questions yet." I turned my head to look at Mi Zhen.

"That's what my grandfather told your father, but I found another one in my grandmother's diary. The reason why my grandmother left was that I felt that my grandfather had changed his mind. At that time, they lived in Shanghai and needed to find a job to support themselves, my grandfather found a job in a bank because of his talent for languages, and my grandmother had to do some tinkering chores to support the family because of her low education level. Grandma is very strong, even if she is just a domestic helper, she doesn't want her grandfather to support herself. But because of the difference in circles, there is no common topic between the two people. Don't look at the war period, two people can look forward to the beauty of the future and remember the beauty of their hometown. But when the previous war came to an end, the two men gradually began to lose the topic of conversation together. Mi Zhen picked up a few apples and handed them to the boss to weigh them, "Grandpa's work will always meet some socials when he gets off work, and it is inevitable to drink and enter some of the more 'lively' places in Shanghai." My grandfather was handsome when he was young, and the experience of joining the army and fighting made him exercise his physique and courage, coupled with his fluent English and French, which was very popular with girls in Shanghai at that time. My grandfather was very popular in the bank, and my grandfather did not marry my grandmother in the legal sense at that time, after all, at that time, Shanghai Tang was still popular in the Western society. Therefore, those female employees who were fascinated by their grandfather also felt that this love, which was not protected by law, still gave them some opportunities. ”

"Why didn't your grandmother marry your grandfather?" As soon as the words came out, I realized that I might have said something wrong, so I quickly covered my mouth and looked at Mizhen cautiously.

Mi Zhen was not angry about this, she calmly took the apple from the boss's hand and looked at the strawberries on the stall. In mid-July, the strawberry season was already over, and Mi Zhen tentatively asked me if I wanted to buy them. I thought about it and nodded: "Actually, it's nothing, don't you see that there is still freshly squeezed strawberry juice on sale in the cold drink shop?" No problem. I squatted down, picked out a few strawberries with normal shape and yellow surface of 'white sesame seeds' from the strawberry box and put them in the bag, and took a box of kumquat and handed it to the boss: "Are there any lemons?" ”

When the boss nodded to get it for me, I asked again, "Where do you get your lemons?" ”

"This wave is from Hainan, why don't you want a few?" The boss took two in his hand and handed them to me and Mi Zhen, "This one tastes very fragrant." ”

"Is there such a big difference where it is produced?" Mizhen's eyes widened in surprise.

I didn't know how to answer her for a moment: "It's just a matter of personal preference." ”

"There's still a difference." Mi Zhen asked, "Otherwise, you wouldn't have asked about the origin." Isn't there a big difference in taste? ”

"Maybe a little more sour." To be honest, I'm not sure.

"Isn't it super sour when you make tea?" Mi Zhen frowned and swallowed her saliva, as if the taste of lemon had appeared in her mouth.

I smiled and shook my head, and by the way, I asked the boss to put two lemons in my pocket: "I don't use all of them, just use two slices to adjust the taste." ”

When Mi Zhen left after settling the account, Mi Zhen continued our previous topic: "Didn't you just ask me why my grandmother didn't officially marry my grandfather?" ”

I originally wanted to nod, but after thinking about it, I added, "This, if you don't want to say it, you can not say it." After all, it's a private matter of the elders."

"It's okay." Mi Zhen smiled comfortingly at me, "The reason is very simple, after my grandmother arrived in Shanghai, she began to feel extremely inferior in the face of the bright modern life. In the war, everyone's life is the same, but after the war, the difference between the two people becomes apparent. Compared to her grandfather's strong adaptability, my grandmother hated that kind of life very much, and she preferred a leisurely farming life, which is why she was reluctant to go to the big city with her mother later. She is also not used to her grandfather going out to socialize every day, and she doesn't like the way her grandfather comes home with alcohol every day. In the place where my grandmother was born and lived, such a life represented depravity. Grandma couldn't accept it, but she knew that her grandfather's life would allow them to gain a foothold in Shanghai. So I don't like it anymore, my grandmother is also patient at night, she wants to wait for a certain number of visas, and the two of them will go to other places to live the life that grandma likes, in fact, grandpa once promised grandma like this. It is because of this idea that grandma has been accommodating grandpa, including marriage, grandpa said that there is no need to go to the form of marriage, and hopes that grandma can adapt to this 'advanced' life, although the naïve grandma is unhappy, but because of the inferiority complex rooted in her heart, and unsuitable, she is unwilling to refute her grandfather's baseless statement, she always holds the illusion that one day her grandfather will go to another place with her, get married seriously, and live the life that grandma is used to. At that time, my grandmother swallowed her anger for a long time, until one day at noon, my grandmother saw something she couldn't bear anymore. When my grandmother was walking on the road with the cough syrup that the helper's family entrusted her to buy, she happened to walk not far from the bank where her grandfather worked, that is, there my grandmother saw my grandfather put his hand on the shoulder of a woman she didn't know, and then watched the woman put her head on her grandfather's shoulder, and my grandfather did not refuse, and the two of them walked away slowly in front of my grandmother's eyes like a couple. My grandmother wrote in her diary that at noon that day, she suddenly felt that the winter in Shanghai was too cold. ”