In the afternoon, Lin Jin's family took a minibus to their grandfather's house in the countryside.

My grandfather's house is on the edge of a small town, and it is only half an hour's drive from the county seat, but my father has not been to see my grandfather for seven or eight years, and Lin Jin lived at home before going to college, and went to see it once a month on average.

Nine years ago, my father was addicted to gambling and owed a lot of money, and my aunt and uncle also borrowed some from him, and persuaded him not to gamble anymore, but at that time, my father resolutely chose to gamble instead of my mother, and the result was of course a falling out.

Grandparents' side of the father didn't go back much, an average of once a year, although the uncle and uncle also didn't treat him much because of his father's gambling, but he was also his father's brother and brother.

Lin Jin's grandfather probably passed away when he was one year old and has no memory at all, as for his grandmother, he passed away when Lin Jin was four years old, Lin Jin still vaguely remembers the scene of the funeral, but because his grandparents have passed away, Lin Jin rarely returns to his father's hometown.

After all, his uncle and uncle have often bullied him since he was a child, because he was too cute.

Half an hour's drive, Lin Jin's family came to the town, bought some gifts such as fruit and milk in the town, and took the town's characteristic electric tricycle to his grandfather's house.

My grandfather's house was two four-story bungalows connected to each other, and although there were two buildings, my grandfather and grandmother only lived in one of them, and the other was rented to outsiders. And only the first and second floors have simple decoration, and even the walls of the third and fourth floors are rough cement.

There is no air conditioning in his house, although the decoration is simple, but it is also tiled, plus a huge TV on the first floor, and the little friends next door, so Lin Jin especially liked to come to his grandfather to play when he was a child, but now he has no interest, those friends are now all at the age of college, even if they don't go to college, they have gone out to work, and now even if they meet, they may not recognize each other.

"Dad!" When she came to her grandfather's door, her mother opened the half-hidden door and shouted twice into the empty house, "Mom! ”

The small wooden door in the backyard of the house opened, and the grandmother smiled lovingly, and walked into the house a little staggeringly, she saw Lin Jin and Lin Chen who followed her mother into the house, stunned for a moment, and then turned her head and found two bottles of frozen Coke from the refrigerator in the back room, and then walked to the front room with the Coke.

"Coming back?" Grandma handed two bottles of Coke to Lin Jin and Lin Chen respectively, sat on the sofa in the front room face to face with her mother, and then asked her mother with some hesitation, "These two children...... Which one is Lin Chen and which one is Lin Jinna? ”

Grandma spoke in dialect, and the names "Lin Chen" and "Lin Jin" were also spoken in dialect, which seemed much more cordial than literally.

"This tall and strong is Lin Chen, he hasn't come back to see you for several years." Mom dragged Lin Chen's arm, who was standing on the side, to the front, and said to her grandmother with a smile, "I'm much stronger now than when I was a child." ”

"Well, he's more handsome than when he was a child." Grandma smiled happily, grabbed Lin Chen's hand and stroked it vigorously.

"This is Lin Jin, he should come to see you often, right?"

"Well, the last time I came was during the summer vacation, and I became so handsome when I went to college." Grandma put her finger against her reading glasses and patted the position next to her, and Lin Jin sat down very obediently.

Since grandma speaks in dialect, "handsome" and "beautiful" are homophones in dialects, so Lin Jin can't actually tell whether grandma says he's beautiful or handsome, but of course the brain naturally translates the dialect into his most pleasant word "handsome".

"Where's Dad?" Mom asked her kind-looking grandmother.

"I'm playing mahjong."

Grandma's health is not very good, she is only in her sixties now, but she has been hospitalized for surgery several times for various reasons, so she doesn't dare to go far now, and can only raise some flowers and plants in the backyard.

But my grandfather's health is not good, it seems that he often goes to the ground to help his younger brother, he is active every day, he rides a small electric car to the town to buy vegetables in the morning, plays mahjong in the afternoon, and goes to various relatives to hang out or continue to play mahjong in the evening, and occasionally goes to the beach with a few peers to catch sea crabs.

The grandmother and mother chatted happily inside and outside the house, Lin Jin and Lin Chen listened to them chatting boringly, but what was even worse was the father who stood outside the door, holding gifts in both hands but did not dare to enter the door.

At the beginning, due to the divorce, his father had a falling out with his grandparents, and he was nervous at this time, and he didn't know whether he should go in or not.

Lin Jin noticed his father, who had not entered the door, glanced at the palm that was tightly grasped by his grandmother, and glanced at Lin Chen, who was sitting next to his mother, Lin Chen naturally understood Lin Jin's thoughts, stood up and ran towards the door, and then pulled his father, who was still wandering outside the door, in.

"Why is he here?" Grandma's expression, which was still kind just now, turned black all of a sudden.

it? Grandma, you're blackening too fast, aren't you?

"He said he stopped gambling and came to apologize to you." Mom glanced at Dad and said casually.

Dad looked confused, didn't he come to apologize when he said yes?

But after all, Dad is also in his forties, and immediately put a flattering smile on his face, put the gift in his hand on the coffee table, and apologized to his grandmother vigorously.

Grandma's face was a little better, but she didn't treat her father very well, she snorted arrogantly, and then forgot about her father, and still chatted with her daughter who hadn't seen her for several years.

"Why don't you call your sister and brother over to make a fuss?" Grandma smiled and took out the old man's machine in her pocket, "Anyway, it's going to be the New Year, stay here for two days, and there will be a reunion dinner to eat the day after tomorrow." ”

Although there are also New Year's greetings here, it is not very important, the important thing is that when all relatives get together for dinner in the second and third years of junior high school, Lin Jin participated on behalf of his mother in the previous years.

But! How can Mom stay here!

"Grandma, the relatives and mothers in the city haven't gone to visit the New Year yet, and we will go to visit the New Year at noon tomorrow, or we will come down the day after tomorrow?" Lin Jin immediately said to her grandmother in a dialect that was not very fluent, "And my mother has just come back, and my friends in the county town have not moved around yet." ”

Mother gave Lin Jin a surprised look, but Lin Jin directly chose to ignore it and continued to say to her grandmother: "Otherwise, we won't be in a hurry to leave after dinner." ”

"That's fine, that's fine." Grandma nodded happily, "Then I'll call your aunt over first, her family lives close, and let him bring your cousin over to play with you." ”

"Eun."

Lin Jin couldn't stop nodding, as for his cousin or something, he didn't care so much, anyway, just don't let his mother stay here for the night.

It's at school, so busy~

(End of chapter)