Tao Sixi returned home and found her eldest sister Tao Dalan wiping tears in the house.

She was stunned.

The eldest sister is a pungent and hearty character, and she speaks loudly, like a tomboy.

In Tao Sixi's memory, it is rare to see the eldest sister crying.

"Sister, what's wrong with you? Which one you off? Tao Sixi hurriedly came over to ask.

When Tao Dalan saw Tao Sixi, her tears flowed even more fiercely.

"Okay, okay, don't cry, what do you have to say slowly, the sky is falling and there is a tall head on top of it, don't cry!"

Tao Sixi hugged Tao Dalan's shoulders like a child, and pulled out a handkerchief to wipe away the tears on her face.

Tao Dalan's tears stopped, and he said to Tao Sixi in a hoarse voice: "Ga Gong came over before, I want to come and see us, I want to beckon Ga Gong to come into the house and sit for a while, but the milk is sloppy, Ga Gong left without entering the door, I thought that Ga Gong didn't even drink hot tea when he arrived at the door of our house, and my heart was blocked uncomfortably......

Tao Dalan took out a pair of brand-new embroidered shoes from behind him and handed them to Tao Sixi.

"This is the single shoe that Ga Po gave us for the summer, you and I have a pair, and there are two pairs of new socks stuffed in it. Ga Po asked Ga Gong to give us a message, saying that he would wait until the autumn to pick up cotton, and then he would give each of us a new cotton jacket, and asked what color you liked......

Tao Sixi stroked the brand-new embroidered shoes in his hand, looking at the circle of fine and dense stitches, as well as the vivid plum blossoms on the upper, he could still imagine Ga Po sitting by the broken small wooden window, squinting, holding a needle, and struggling to thread the needle......

"Eldest sister, is Ga Gong specially sending shoes here today, or is there something passing by our door?" Tao Sixi suppressed the emotions in his heart and asked again.

Tao Dalan said: "Xiaoxia's house in our village renovated the roof and invited a craftsman, the craftsman happened to be from Xiaoyang Village, and Ga Gong followed the craftsman to do small work, and brought the shoes to us by the way." ”

Tao Sixi understood.

Ga Gong, who is in his fifties, should have been at the age of teasing his grandson at home, but he had to run around in the gap between the busy farms like a man in the prime of life who supported his family, undertaking all kinds of work as helpers to supplement the family.

Why?

Just because their son died early, the married daughter also died in childbirth, and there were no children to support them in the old age, leaving them two elders to rely on each other for their lives in this world.

Tao Dalan sighed and said sadly: "I saw Ga Gong's hands before, all of them were worn out, blisters one after another, the whole person was black and thin, and his back was a little hunched, I felt so uncomfortable, I really wanted to do something for him, but I couldn't do anything, I couldn't even invite him into the door to drink hot tea, I was really an unfilial granddaughter, I lost Ga Po so much love us, the shoes and socks all year round were her old man's acceptance, woo woo ......"

Tao Dalan covered her mouth and choked again.

Tao Sixi was also very uncomfortable.

"Eldest sister, don't be sad, it's not your fault, it's our snobbery." Tao Sixi patted Tao Dalan's back and comforted softly.

"As far as our grandmother's character, not to mention that we have been away for more than ten years, even if it is to my stepmother Fan's mother's family, my grandmother doesn't want to move around, the reason why I walk around with the second aunt's mother's family, the Zhu family, is that the Zhu family is a butcher, and it can be cheap to buy pork during the New Year's holidays, our milk is the most snobbish, Gagong must also know that he can understand your distress, don't cry, it's not good if your eyes are broken."

Having said that, Tao Sixi was still uncomfortable in his heart.