Chapter 13 Grandpa Chen

Chen Xiaomei decided to start with her daughter. "Xiaozhu, do you remember your grandfather who came to our house two years ago?"

"Yes." My daughter is very well-behaved and a good person to talk to. "Mom, I never understand why we call him grandpa, you still call him dad, and dad calls him uncle. Isn't your dad grandpa? ”

It's a bit confusing indeed.

Liu Songzhao was really bored, hearing the conversation between their mother and daughter, he also remembered the old man from the countryside, thin, gray-haired, very black face, even darker hands, not only the skin of his hands was very thick and the joints were very large, and he always wore a pair of liberation shoes. When I arrived at their house, I sat on the sofa, ate carefully when I ate, and slept carefully. He doesn't talk much, he doesn't move around much, and he has no hobbies other than watching TV every day.

"Want to know why?" Mom asked.

"Yes." The daughter replied, and Liu Songzhao also thought that listening to her mother's stories was more interesting than listening to the old songs on TV, although it was in the living room instead of on the high pile of grain.

"Do you remember one day seven years ago, my mother came home like crazy, hugged you two and cried and laughed, remember?" Mom was a little embarrassed in her words. It was the most out of her mind since she could remember, it was already nine o'clock in the evening when she rushed back to Guyi City from Qingshan County, and the children were at her grandmother's house, and after rushing into the house, she hugged the two children, crying and laughing. At that time, not only the children were frightened, but even the grandparents were frightened. The next day, it was fine, and no one asked again.

"Yes." The memory is so deep that my mother remembered it as soon as she mentioned it.

"That day, something big happened. Let your dad tell you about it. ”

The two children turned their heads to their father in unison. The two old men probably guessed what their daughter and son-in-law wanted to do, and turned off the sound of the TV a little.

"There was a mudslide in Xiling Township that day, and I led the team to rescue it." Liu Dehou began to reminisce. "It was a very strange mudslide, usually it was a burst, but that time it was a burst, and we stood on the side of the mountain, trying to rescue the wounded and also scoop up the bodies of the victims." Liu Dehou paused for a moment and continued: "Suddenly, another mudslide rushed over, this time it was not just mud, it was a stone, the stone that had been washed loose a few times before, this time it was also washed down with the flood, I was screaming everyone to retreat quickly, I didn't notice that there was a big stone weighing almost twenty pounds that rolled down from the mountain, hit the rock on the side of the mountain and changed direction, and hit me straight out. But I didn't know at all, and I didn't have the consciousness to dodge at all. ”

Liu Dehou paused, his tone was obviously a little scared, and the expressions of the two children were also a little nervous.

"At this moment, a man pounced on me, and just as the stone was a meter away from me, he rushed between me and the stone." Liu Dehou paused again, as if he was organizing language, trying to make things as plain as possible, not wanting to give the children any shadow. He continued: "I heard a 'bang', and the stone hit the man, and it pressed against me with the man, and I felt a liquid spray on my face, and later I realized that it was the man's blood. ”

"And then?" This time it was the son who was questioning.

"This person couldn't do it on the spot, I put my arms around him, picked up my car, and took him to the county hospital, on the way he gulped blood, and when I got off the car at the county hospital, I was covered in blood, all his blood. He died, in order to save me, I sat in the hospital bloody for a long time, until your mother came to call me, I came back to my senses" Liu Dehou lowered his head.

"I was frightened when I saw the blood on your dad's body, and then I found out that it was someone else's blood, and I knew that someone saved your dad with his own life, and if it wasn't for that person, your dad would be gone! You were only seven years old at the time, and what would I do if your dad was gone? What are you going to do. Chen Xiaomei remembered the scene at that time, and couldn't help but want to cry.

"Your mother said to me like crazy, let's go back, let's go back, we don't serve as county magistrates anymore, I want to be together as a family." Liu Dehou said: "No matter how your mother makes trouble, I still can't leave, I am the county magistrate, I must be on the scene, and I have no right to leave." Seeing that your mother was a little messy, I asked someone to send her back. ”

"Later, I learned that this person's surname is Chen, his name is Chen Baoguo, a native of Chen Village, Longshan Township, and I went to Chen Village, Longshan when the memorial service was held. He is an only son, his mother died young, he has an old father, his wife ran away many years ago, and a son who is studying at the county No. 1 middle school," Liu Dehou continued.

"This man is so pathetic!" The daughter's heart is kind.

"If he hadn't helped your dad block that rock, then the pity would have been us." Chen Xiaomei interjected.

"At least we still have a mother, not like that man's son, who became an orphan!" The daughter said.

"We think the same way, so your father discussed with me, we have to recognize his father as a father, and in the future, we will treat his father like our father, take care of him until he dies, and we will also help him raise the child and cultivate Chengren." Speaking of this, Chen Xiaomei consciously asked her son: "Xiaosong, let's do this, right?" ”

"That's right! If it were me, I would do the same. Liu Songzhao replied very simply, "Mom, that grandfather is that person's father, right?" Chen Zhuhuo guessed.

"Yes, that grandfather doesn't accept your father to recognize him as a father, because your father is a political axe leader, and it's not good to recognize relatives casually. We begged a lot and he finally accepted, but it was me, not your dad, who recognized him as a dad. But you two continue to call grandpa. Chen Xiaomei said.

"That's a very good grandpa! Liu Dehou said: "He never went through the back door for anyone to come to me, nor did he talk about me in front of the villagers, and he didn't even allow me to go to Longshan Chen Village. ”

"His life was difficult, but he never wanted us to give him money." Chen Xiaomei said: "Later, he found out that your father and I really treated him as his own old man, and he slowly integrated into our lives." After we were transferred to the city, we would occasionally come and stay with us for a few days. ”

"I also want to be good to him and take care of him." Xiaozhu said. Komatsu nodded.

Hearing the attitude of the two children, both of them felt very relieved, Liu Dehou said: "He has passed away." ”

When the two children heard this, they looked disappointed.

"We are going to go to Longshan Chen Village tomorrow, the grandson of your grandfather Longshan, after graduating from college, returned to the countryside, renovated the old ancestral house, and went into the fire the day after tomorrow. Our whole family went. Liu Dehou said.

"Go see your cousin, and help Grandpa Longshan and Uncle Baoguo sweep the tombs, okay?" Chen Xiaomei said.

"Should go." Before the two children could speak, Old Man Chen spoke: "I'll go with your grandmother." There is another point, Xiaozhu don't call that child's cousin, since they are all surnamed Chen, you can call him eldest brother. ”

"I'll go." This time it was Komatsu who made the first statement, and he continued: "People can't be without righteousness, they don't want their lives for the sake of their father's family, if we don't go, we have no conscience." ”

"I'll go too. I'm looking forward to this place! Chen Zhuhuo said.

The next day, Driver Huang, who was going to drive a popular Lingzhi, drove another car, an Eleven Iveco. As soon as I got into the car, I found that there were already two people on it: Driver Huang's wife and daughter. In the back of the car, there was a cigarette, 20 pieces of wine and 10 pieces of fruit, as well as a large box of fireworks.

Seeing the same brand of wine, Chen Xiaomei knew who bought the wine last time, touched her husband's hand lightly, and said, "Did you give Driver Huang the money for the wine that time in the burial mountain?" ”

"Given, he didn't ask for it, and went directly to the reception fee."

Liu Dehou then quipped: "Last time, fortunately, Xiaohuang was clever, otherwise you would have lost face." ”

"What's wrong?"

"For the funeral, the son cooks the food, the daughter cooks the wine, where is your wine?"

Chen Xiaomei suddenly realized.

There is a village rule in Longshan Chen Village, motor vehicles cannot be parked on the laneway in the village, if you can park in the yard, then casual, if you can't park, then park in the big square outside the ancestral hall.

When the car arrived at Chencun Square, Driver Huang was about to find a place to park in the square, when Chen Weizheng's phone came and told him to drive directly into the yard. Driver Huang said with a smile: "I still have the knowledge to come back from studying outside, and the local turtle has never thought that one day he will have a car." ”

Coming to Chen Weizheng's courtyard, the luxurious sliding gate did not arouse everyone's interest, what aroused interest was the neat cobblestone wall, a layer of pebbles on top of a layer of cement mortar, and then a layer of pebbles, from a distance, like an abstract painting, simple and chic manor style.

The electric large sliding gate automatically rises, the car drives along the cement avenue, and the door on the body automatically closes again. Chen Weizheng stood at the end of the road, smiling and waiting for their arrival.

The car stopped, and a group of people got out of the car in turn.

"Wow, what a beautiful villa!" Liu Songzhao was the first to shout.

Everyone was stunned by the small estate. Chen Xiaomei thought that it was just a slight repair of the old house before, but she didn't expect it to be a new construction. glanced at Liu Dehou opposite each other, and found the surprise in the other party's eyes.

"Wei Zheng came here, let me introduce, this is my parents. Your name is ......" Chen Xiaomei couldn't figure out what to call it.

"Call grandparents." Old Man Chen spoke: "Young man, my daughter calls your grandfather her father, it should be no problem for you to call her father grandfather!" ”

"No problem, no problem." Chen Weizheng hurriedly greeted: "Hello grandpa!" Hello grandma! ”

"This is your cousin, you two introduce yourselves." Chen Xiaomei pointed to the two novels.

"Hello cousin, my name is Liu Songzhao, and my cousin calls me Komatsu."

"Hello big brother, I'm Chen Zhuhuo, call me Xiaozhu."

"Good! Good! "I met Driver Huang's family and walked into the door of the house together.