Chapter 15 The Elders of the Elderly
"Grandma, I want to eat potatoes!" Tang Yan pursed her lips and was coquettish as a little daughter, "White porridge is not delicious." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
At this age, Tang Yan likes to do this action the most, being coquettish with her family, and enjoying the spoiling of her family.
"Potatoes! It's going to be October, and I've eaten all of last year's food. ”
Potatoes are not the staple food in my hometown, they are rarely grown here, Tang Yan likes to eat them, and my grandmother only grows some.
Although, only when Tang Yan comes back, the family will cook this, but when she was in junior high school, she still often went home, so she had already finished eating.
"Ahh Why is it gone? Tang Yan continued to pout, expressing dissatisfaction.
When Tang Yan was a child, she liked to eat these things very much, of course, now she doesn't care, as long as she can eat enough, she will behave like this is just coquettish.
Sure enough, grandma immediately felt distressed, Tang Yan was raised by her grandmother since she was a child, and compared with several other grandchildren, she was naturally more painful.
"I didn't eat enough last year, I have more this year, and I will eat enough next year," but I'm afraid that there will be fewer people coming back next year, "There are still sweet potatoes, and you will cook sweet potato porridge tomorrow, and you will too, and you won't say it early when you come back." ”
Grandma speaks, sometimes she can't say clearly, Tang Yan knows, she wants to say, she knew that she would come back, so she cooked sweet potato porridge, which is also what Tang Yan likes to eat.
"I want to eat white, yellow is not delicious." Wayward words, rarely spoken!
"Okay, white." Grandma's face was covered with laugh lines.
When you are old, you like children to be coquettish by your side, and some little willfulness is also the fun of getting along with grandchildren.
When Tang Yan came back, it was already past eight o'clock, and her grandfather had already gone out, and he had planted some peanuts at home, and he wanted to dig them out while the sun was still not big.
Grandma picked some to go home to dry, and just saw Tang Yan coming home, knowing that she hadn't eaten yet, so she stayed to greet her for dinner.
Fortunately, rural people are used to cooking more, so Tang Yan will not be hungry, of course, a meal is indispensable.
Seeing that Tang Yan was eating very happily, grandma was also very happy, so she only let her eat more, and went out after a few words.
Tang Yan knew that she was going to harvest peanuts, this year's flowers grew well, grandparents were happy, Tang Yan liked to eat salty and fragrant peanuts the most, but ·······
In her previous life, she came back a long time ago, and she felt sorry for her grandparents who were so old and so hard, so she also went to help when she harvested peanuts this time.
It's just that grandpa felt sorry for her and didn't let her take a hoe, so he only picked up scattered peanuts in the field, in fact, this is a child's work, without any effort, and later picked peanuts also participated, all of which were effortless, and she was doing it when she was in elementary school.
Before the typhoon, those peanuts had been processed and put at home, but as a result, after a typhoon, there was nothing, the peanuts were gone, and the grandparents were gone.
After washing the dishes and chopsticks, Tang Yan decided to go to the reservoir to have a look.
Her grandparents didn't let her do hard work, and she couldn't help much with the work in the fields, and to be honest, she didn't even know when and what crops to harvest.
Therefore, she did not plan to go to the fields to help, and, because she was afraid of snakes, she rarely went up the mountain when she was a child, and the situation in the reservoir was indeed not very clear, and it was time to explore.
Ready to prepare, Tang Yan set off, and there was no need to tell her grandparents, as long as she came back before lunch, she would not have anything to worry about.
When Tang Yan went to the reservoir, she had to pass a big rock, a big one, and some old people sat next to her and chatted.
This group of old people are very old, they are all eighty or ninety years old, full of silver hair, and they can chat idle at this time.
For those with a large population, the farm work is done by their children and grandchildren, and for those with a wealthy family, they do not need to do farm work. Like Tang Yan's grandparents, the children in the family are out, and the family background is not very good, so they are so old and still working in the fields.
Tang Yan chatted with the old man, she has always been very patient, her face is very respectful, and her help is unambiguous, so she has a good reputation among the elders.
Seeing her passing by, these old people beckoned very cordially and asked Tang Yan to go over and chat.
It's also a panic, the old things are about to be chewed away, so let's talk to Tang Yan about something new.
"Tang Yan, when did you come back?" The old grandmother who spoke first was wearing a red headscarf on her head and a dark red old man's shirt, and her old face was full of smiles at this time.
This area is all from the Tang family, and the place is not big, but Tang Yan is a relatively quiet girl, and she may not go out when she goes home on vacation, so this question arises.
Another person asked, "Where are your grandparents?" “
"Auntie, I only came home in the morning. They went to harvest peanuts, and I had something to do to go up. "If they don't say that, they'll ask why they don't help or something.
The old man is not very dexterous in his ears, and when he talks to the old man, Tang Yan will be quiet and a little louder.
This is also one of the reasons why Tang Yan is liked by the elderly, talking to them in a whisper, they can't hear clearly, what you say loudly, if you exaggerate your performance, you will know at a glance that you are accommodating him can't hear clearly, which will make them unhappy and depressed, you know, the old people don't like it, admit that they are not young anymore.
Tang Yan is different, when she talks to the old man, her voice is louder than usual, and she looks at her demeanor, but she is no different from talking usually, which is generous in the eyes of the old man.
"How's the exam? Are the grades good? "This is my mother's good friend Aunt Ying's grandmother, and I guess Aunt Ying mentioned my recent exam.
Although they are all members of the Tang family, they have many branches, so they are also related to each other, and Aunt Ying's family is close to her own family.
"The test is almost the same, and the results will be out in two days." In front of the elders, Tang Yan has always been modest, never full of words, and it is impossible to say anything "I did well in the exam, I will definitely be able to go to any school······ Something like that.
"When will your parents come back?" This is another friend of my mother, the elder of Aunt Feng's family, what is the specific identity, Tang Yan didn't understand, anyway, this group of grandmothers, she just called her aunt, be specific, there are too many relatives, she can't tell the difference.
Not long ago, the ancestral house was inaugurated at a banquet, and I heard that there were 66 people sitting at the table, all of whom were members of the Tang family, so I couldn't tell these relatives, and I really didn't blame Tang Yan.
"They don't have time to come back, the factory is very busy." I have to say this every time I come back.
To be honest, in her previous life, Tang Yan couldn't figure out why they kept asking this, every time they saw them, there must be such a sentence, and even said hello, some of them asked this, knowing that there was nothing at home, Tang Yu and Lin Lan would not ask for leave.
The atmosphere quickly became warm, the aunts were bored, and all kinds of questions were thrown at Tang Yan, making her feel like a press conference.
Of course, she has lived for more than a hundred years, and although their questions are complicated, just give a few answers.
However, Tang Yan has to go to the reservoir, and if she delays any longer, she will not have time to come back for lunch.