Chapter 48
When Tang Yu arrived at his uncle's house, his grandmother was sweeping the leaves in front of the door, holding a cane in one hand and a broom in the other. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info sweeps very slowly, but very clean.
When Tang Yu and Tang Xin arrived in front of her, she recognized it, "I just said that it looks a little familiar, I didn't think it was really you, it's hard to use your eyes when you're old." ā
"Grandma!"
"Grandma!"
Tang Yu wanted to take the broom in her hand, but her grandmother held on tightly, don't look at her inconvenient legs and feet, because she often worked, her hands were quite strong.
Grandma frowned and said, "Hey, what do you want you to sweep, go in and sit inside." ā
Tang Yu didn't force it, these grandmothers did it every day, and after their own work was done, they would go to their cousin's house to help and sweep the children. She is a person who can't be idle, and when she is idle, she feels that her bones are loose and her body has all kinds of problems.
My grandmother was a person who had experienced a famine, and in those years she was so hungry that she had no food to eat, and she dug up all the weeds, leaves, and bark to eat, which was called famine. Death of starvation often happens, and Grandma Tang, who survived by luck, is very thrifty and industrious, and she needs CDs for meals and swept back the fallen leaves to burn. This has become a habit for her, and it has seeped into her bones, no matter how old she is, she can do as much work as she can.
Grandma didn't continue to sweep the leaves, she leaned her broom against the wall, and entered the house with Tang Yu and them.
The uncle's house is a three-story small house covering an area of more than 100 square meters, surrounded by walls on all sides, with a total area of more than 200 square meters.
A well was dug inside the wall, and a few fruitless jackfruit trees were scattered around. There are also cassava and two star fruit trees outside the fence, and my grandmother was sweeping the leaves of the star fruit trees outside the fence just now.
This scale can be regarded as a "mansion" in Xinxing Village and Lujiao Village. And such a "mansion" has to be cleaned by my grandmother alone.
Tang Yu remembered that ten years later, when her grandmother was in her eighties, she had to get up and cook it by herself if she wanted to eat breakfast, and cook it for them by the way.
But most of the time, my grandmother is here by herself, looking after the house. The rest of them either work or study, and when they are studying, they also go outside to reunite with their uncle and them on vacation.
Tang Yu and Tang Xin put the souvenir on the stool in the living room on the first floor, and the two sat down next to them.
"Just come here, what are you doing with so many things? It's better for you to come and visit your grandmother a few more times than to bring anything with you! The tone seemed infinitely emotional.
Tang Yu pulled over a stool and asked his grandmother to sit down.
Tang Xin said with a smile, "I've only come once in a long time, and if I don't bring something to visit you, others will laugh at me for being stingy." ā
Grandma disagreed with Tang Xin's statement, "No one will laugh at you, others are not so idle staring at you." ā
Having said that, my grandmother also opened the bag of souvenirs. The souvenirs were packed in red bags, and there were two bags in total, one bag was a variety of preserved fruits, and the other was dried fish, which was dried at home.
Grandma frowned and said, "Why did you bring so many things?" This preserved fruit is enough for me to chew for more than a year, why don't I keep the dried fish and eat it myself? ā
Tang Xin explained, "The preserved fruit is what Ah Yu wants to buy for you, you can get this dried fish to eat without buying fish, it's delicious, and there are a lot of them at home." ā
Grandma looked up at Tang Yu and took her hand to touch it back and forth, the hands were very rough and the joints were protruding, which were even more manly than a man's hand.
"It's Ah Yu, I have a heart, and I'm thinking about my old wife."
Tang Yu also gently held his grandmother's hand and smiled at her.
"Have you eaten? I'm going to order some noodles for you to eat, okay?! As he spoke, he got up and went to the kitchen.
Tang Yu hurriedly grabbed her, "Grandma, we all came after eating, don't be busy, just sit down." ā
Grandma looked at her suspiciously, "But did you really eat it?" Don't come to your grandmother's house, you can't even eat a full meal. ā
"This can still be fake, it's past nine o'clock now, and I must have had breakfast."
Grandma pursed her lips and pointed to the stairs upstairs, "These people haven't gotten up until now, don't think they'll get up until noon." Tang Yu thought she was talking about a few old watches.
Grandma can say this kind of thing, but Tang Yu and Tang Xin can't say it.
"I'm not full now, are you, why don't you boil some sugar water to eat?" Grandma asked tentatively.
Tang Xin sat on the side and couldn't help it, "Grandma, you don't need to say it, why are you busy working?" At such an age, I still tossed and turned, sat and rested. ā
After being rejected several times, my grandmother finally stopped thinking about cooking for them, "Alas, if you don't eat it, you won't eat it." ā
After a while, Grandma stood up again, and Tang Yu asked, "Grandma, where are you going?" ā
Grandma patted Tang Yu on the shoulder, "I'm not going to the kitchen, I'm going to get a jar to hold this preserved fruit, so as not to get water." ā
Then my grandmother walked slowly to her room on crutches, probably rummaging for something, making a rustling sound, and came out after a while, carrying a plastic jar.
Tang Yu hurriedly caught up and took the jar in her hand, took it outside to draw well water to wash it, and then went back to the living room to take a paper towel to dry it.
When Tang Yu was about to put the preserved fruit in the jar, her grandmother took out a red envelope from her cuff and gave it to her.
Tang Yu hesitated and didn't take it, the red envelope fell to the ground, grandma picked it up and stuffed it back into her, gritted her teeth and said, "Put it away quickly, don't let people see it." As she said this, she looked around, fearing that someone would suddenly appear.
Tang Yu had no choice but to accept it, and he couldn't let his grandmother pick it up again. In fact, she really hates accepting red envelopes from relatives, especially her grandmother, just like now, she doesn't even dare to give it to her openly.
Tang Yu knew that it was all her grandmother's intention, but she really didn't want her grandmother to be sneaky, as if she was doing something unseemly. But for the sake of peace, my grandmother did have to sneak around, and she was going to make trouble if the people in the family knew about it.
"Why is my granddaughter so precious, my grandchildren are like grass", this is all Tang Yu heard from others. It's not that it's completely unbelievable when you hear it, but Tang Yu has seen too many of that kind of eyes, and he is on guard, for fear that a careless Tang Yu will take advantage of it.
Grandma turned around and took out a red envelope and said to Tang Xin, "If you don't study, I'll give you a small one and put it away." ā
Tang Xin didn't have Tang Yu's hesitation, so he directly accepted it with a smile and put it in his pocket.
Tang Yu poured the preserved fruit into the jar, and half of the preserved fruit was still full, and she asked her grandmother if she had too many jars.
Grandma shook her head, "No, you can take the rest back and eat it." ā
Tang Yu also shook his head, "Bring it over and bring it back, we might as well not bring it before that." There is a lot of food at home, and there is no shortage of this. If you don't have a jar, put it in and put it in when you have it. ā
"Bring it back to your parents and your parents, not for you to eat."
Tang Yu smiled and didn't speak, anyway, she wouldn't take it with her when she left.