Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Joy of God (I)
Although this trip was only a dozen days, it felt like I had been there for more than half a year. Especially when I got home, I fell into my comfortable bed all of a sudden, and this feeling became even stronger.
Grandma came in with a bowl of red dates and white fungus soup and said to me, "Good girl, Nong is also back, go and see your own shop, don't always let Grandpa Nong see it for you." I haven't had time to go out with me for so many days. β
"Oh, my grandmother, haven't I only been back for a long time, don't you be in such a hurry to throw that hot potato back to me, right? You don't care about what happens to your granddaughter out there! As I spoke, I took the red dates and white fungus soup in my grandmother's hand and gulped down.
Grandma sat on the edge of my bed and asked me with a smile: "Nong said this, it seems that something unusual has happened, so let's talk to grandma." β
As soon as I saw that my grandmother was in an interesting posture, I also came to the momentum. I drank all the red dates and white fungus soup in one go, put the bowl on the bedside table, wiped my mouth, and began to talk endlessly.
In front of my grandmother, except for the paragraph about my brother's death, I had nothing else to hide, so I said it all in one place. This also includes the matter of parallel time and space, but when I said it, I didn't mention that the human skin was my brother's.
However, grandma is not too easy to fool, especially without grandpa's help, and I really don't know if what I said was not appropriate enough for grandma to guess something.
I saw her bow her head and be silent, a distracted look, as if something heavy was suddenly coming.
I was afraid of saying too much and making too many mistakes, so I didn't dare to say anything more, so I just asked about Wu Peiming's out-of-body soul.
But my grandmother silently walked out of my room, went back to her bedroom, and closed the door.
I waited anxiously for my grandfather to come back from closing the store in the evening, and as soon as he entered, I grabbed him and whispered, "Grandpa, grandpa, you are back." Didn't you say you would talk to your grandmother about your brother? Did you say that? β
Grandpa frowned and said, "Not yet, I don't know how to open this mouth." β
"What then? This afternoon, I told my grandmother all the things I encountered when I went out this time, and of course the human skin was my brother's business, and I didn't tell my grandmother. But after hearing this, Grandma didn't say a word, locked herself in her room, and still hasn't come out, not even dinner. β
Grandpa patted me on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry about it, I'll go see her." Have you eaten dinner yourself? If not, or grandpa will give you a bowl of noodles first. β
"No, no. Grandpa, let's go see grandma first. β
Grandpa nodded and walked into the bedroom.
I watched my grandfather walk in, and my heart was half relieved, and then I had the appetite to make a bowl of instant noodles to eat. But when I was halfway through eating instant noodles in my room, I suddenly heard the cry of grief coming from my grandparents' bedroom.
I think grandpa must have told grandma all the truth.
It's okay to cry out, it's okay.
I continued to eat my instant noodles, tears rolling down the soup like pearls of broken threads.
The next morning, my grandmother was making breakfast as usual, and there was her favorite commentary on the radio, which made me feel that it was not her who cried last night.
"Zicha baby, Nong is awake. Come, sit down, grandma has just baked bread, butter and jam are on the table and eat it hot. Grandma knocked an egg in the milk for Nong, and Nong waited while eating. β
Grandma spoke with a very normal expression, as if nothing had happened.
When Grandma walked into the kitchen again, Grandpa was coming out of the toilet with a newspaper.
I asked my grandfather, "Grandma knows all about it, doesn't she?" β
Grandpa nodded and said lightly, "I told her everything." β
"I heard my grandmother cry last night."
"Hmm. Crying all night. Grandpa's eyes were bloodshot, and he seemed to have not slept all night.
"But it's as if she had nothing to do now." I lowered my voice and said to my grandfather, afraid that my grandmother would hear it.
Grandpa sighed deeply and didn't answer my words.
"Zicha baby, the milk is ready, grandma knows that Nong likes to eat egg drops, and she has already broken up all the eggs, hurry up and drink it while it's hot." Grandma came over with a bowl of egg drop milk with a smile on her face.
I looked at my grandmother at a loss, and I didn't know whether to comfort her or talk and laugh with her.
"Hey, why haven't you eaten bread yet, this baked bread slice has to be eaten while it's hot, eat it, eat it quickly." Grandma put the egg drop milk in front of me, and when she saw that I hadn't eaten the bread yet, she urged me to put butter on the bread slices herself.
Since I didn't know what to say, I had to bow my head and drink the egg drop milk.
Grandma handed me the buttered slice of bread, and I took it, and began to bury my head and eat it heavily, not daring to look at her.
Grandma took another slice of bread, sat down at the table, and began to spread strawberry jam. She paints a lot, she loves sweets, but fortunately she doesn't have diabetes, so we usually let her go.
After my grandmother finished coating the bread, she snatched the newspaper from my grandfather's hand and read it while eating. Grandpa was silent, and without the newspaper, he sat at the table stupidly and did not eat breakfast.
Grandpa didn't like to eat Western-style breakfast, and usually went to the street every morning to buy flatbread fritters and come back to eat or wait for grandma to cook vegetables for her to eat.
But today, it seems that grandma didn't cook him rice, and I don't know why he didn't go out to buy flatbread fritters to eat.
I just found the atmosphere in the restaurant awkward at one point.
Suddenly, the soymilk machine in the kitchen rang, and grandma shouted at grandpa, "Didn't you hear that the soymilk is good?" Don't give it to me yet, Nong talks about Nong, Mu Zhimu Jue, what can you do! If it weren't for Nong, how would my grandson have died! β
Grandpa went into the kitchen to pour soy milk.
I saw that my grandmother had made her words clear, and if I didn't speak out at this time, it seemed that I really couldn't say it. So he said: "Grandma, what does my brother's death have to do with grandpa, how can you blame him!" β
Grandma snorted and didn't answer me.
Grandpa walked out of the kitchen with two cups of soy milk, one for grandma and one for himself.
Grandma took the soy milk and didn't pay attention to grandpa, grandpa seemed to want to say something, but he didn't say it.
The scene was awkward again.
I didn't dare to say more, so I buried my head in binge.
After eating, he said, "I'm going to the store." "The idea is to get out of this awkward atmosphere as soon as possible.
However, my grandmother stopped me and said, "I'd better let Grandpa Nong go to the store today, I have something to teach Nong." β
"Teach me something? What? "I was a little surprised.
"Joy Magic." Grandma said it lightly and lightly.
And I was so shocked that I exclaimed, "Joy God Technique? Teach me? β
When Grandpa heard this, he didn't stop it, drank the soy milk in one go, and said that he went to the store.
Grandma didn't answer him, so grandpa took the door and went out.
After my grandfather left, I asked my grandmother, "Grandma, why are you angry with grandpa?" I really can't blame grandpa for my brother's affairs! β
Grandma glared at me, and said with a rare seriousness: "Don't intervene in the affairs of adults, don't intervene as a child, there are many things that Nong doesn't know." Okay, now that you're done eating, help grandma clean up these dishes and chopsticks, and then come to grandma's room, and grandma will teach Nong Xi magic techniques. β
I didn't dare to reply, so I obediently put away the dishes and chopsticks. After that, I obediently went into my grandmother's room to learn the magic of joy from my grandmother.
In the first class, my grandmother first introduced me to the Joy God Technique, which was similar to what I had heard from Second Uncle Wu before.
I asked my grandmother, "Are there many people who know about the Joy Divine Technique?" I heard Second Uncle Wu say before that he once met a master on the high-speed rail, and he explained the Joy Divine Technique and the Jade Girl Joy Divine Technique very clearly. β
"If you want to count the Joy Divine Technique, there should be a lot of people who know it, after all, it has been passed down from generation to generation for many generations, and there is no prohibition to say that this kind of magic cannot be said to outsiders at all. However, if Nong really wants to say how many people will, then I dare to pack a ticket, there will never be more than ten people in the world today! Grandma said.
"Grandma, how can you be so sure?"
"The Joy Divine Technique has been passed down from generation to generation since the fifth generation, and it is not passed on to the outside world, so there are not many people who know it. And as far as I know, there won't be more than three families in total, so I won't pack more than ten. β
"Not necessarily. Our generation is an only child, but the previous generation was not, the previous generation was not, so many generations have been passed down, I don't believe that there will be only such a few people. β
"Inheritance! Said the legend! β
Well, I didn't bother anymore and obediently said "oh".
My grandmother threw me a yellowed and slightly musty book, saying that it was a handbook handed down by my ancestors, and told me to study it hard these days, and she would test me in a few days.
What the? Didn't you say you were going to teach me? Why did I end up learning on my own?
Well, learn on your own. I thought that my grandmother must have been in a bad mood when she first learned about her brother's death, so I didn't dare to argue in front of her, so I obediently took the yellow, moldy hand and went back to my room.
As soon as I arrived at the room, before I had time to look through the notes of the Joy God Technique, I suddenly received a call from Qin Xuemin, who said that she was going to come to our house.
My heart is a little chuckled, this grandma just learned the news of her brother's death yesterday, and suddenly my brother's fiancΓ©e came to the door again, shouldn't this irritate her? Grandma's heart is not good.
I advised Qin Xuemin not to come first, but she had to say that she wanted to come, and said that she had to come and ask her grandmother in person if there was something important, so she could rest assured.
I really can't resist her, so I can only follow her.
But after hanging up the phone, my heart was really a little worried, how could I talk to my grandmother so that it wouldn't irritate her?