Chapter 27: Grandfather
The night was dark, and the birds chirped non-stop under the eaves of the shallow house. I haven't listened to Pu Shu's "White Birch Forest" for a long time, I found a cassette and listened to it upside down, her favorite song is Pu Shu's song, this song is like a poem, and like a poignant love legend.
She likes the dark sky, the woods and the pigeons. She thinks that all three scenes are beautiful, so when she has nothing to do, she likes to find postcards about birch forests and write poems.
It was Saturday again, and she rode back to the factory in the mountains, she hadn't seen her grandmother for a long time, and her grandfather rarely went out since he had a leg disease.
Asa has a deep affection for this factory, she has grown up in this place since she was a child, and every plant and tree here seems to be her childhood playmate. After returning to the factory, she said hello to her grandmother and went to the cottage where she used to live, this medicinal herb factory is very large, the family building, the state-owned warehouse, the factory has a total of five or six hundred houses, when their parents are there, they often want to live there, anyway, there are many houses in the factory, and there are many water sources. There are mountains and rivers inside, flowers and grasses are clean, and living here is indeed a good place to recuperate physically and mentally.
There are still a lot of books piled up in the factory, and the deepest impression is the unopened "XX Quotations", "LL Quotations", "White Papers" and what red-headed documents are piled up everywhere, and they can be flipped through casually if they don't understand it.
She didn't know what kind of work her grandfather did when he was young, but she only knew that her grandmother said that her grandfather held an important position in the provincial party committee when he was young.
Qianqian remembers that the deepest impression is that once she sat in the house with her grandfather and watched "Red Flag Canal", her grandfather cried once she watched it, and she couldn't understand it, so she asked her grandfather: "Grandpa, what's wrong with you."
My grandfather raised his eyes with tears in his eyes and pointed to the Hongqi Canal on TV and said, "This place, I went to it with my colleagues back then, and I watched them build the canal."
"Oh!" Shallow still doesn't understand what my grandfather is crying about. Grandpa would occasionally tell Qianqian about his family, and he asked Qianqian: "Qianqian, do you know how many people our family has?"
Shallow shook her head, she was curious. My grandfather told her, "Our family is the largest in the whole area, and my immediate relatives now have more than 200 households, and there are more than 400 families with slightly more distant relatives." ……”
Qianqian was still young at that time, and he understood some of what his grandfather told her, and some didn't understand. She only knows that her grandparents are very popular, and people often give them souvenir gifts every now and then, but what she doesn't know is that they look up to her grandfather's personality and former status. But her pride and prejudice were formed here.
After returning to the factory, she remembered the hut where she once lived, so she walked slowly along the wide road in the factory, and she walked more than a mile before she reached the family courtyard in the pear forest area. I haven't been back for a long time, and the pear blossoms in the pear grove are almost gone, and the dense pear fruits are small like small gourds and full of branches. This long-lost feeling is so good, shallow stood in the pear forest for a long time before slowly pushing open the house he once lived in. The room was covered with dusty stars, and there was a glass bottle with some stacks of stars that he had discarded. The bottle also reads 'Children with Stars' written on the top of the bottle, a few crooked words. Seeing these words, she suddenly felt very sad, she seemed to have left this home for a long, long time, and the time after leaving the mountains was not happy at all. She picked up her bottle and walked quietly to the door, where she sat down on the threshold for a long time.
She loves this home in the mountains and the time she spent with her grandparents. She has said to her grandmother more than once: "Mother, I want to be with you for the rest of my life." But his father took her away.
Her happiest time when she was a child was with her grandmother, but since she stepped into school, her every day has been like a nightmare, no matter where she goes to school, there are boys waiting to tease her on the way to and from school.
The only way she could fight back was to confront them coldly.
The thought of living in an urban village was annoying, so she stayed under the pear tree for a while and then went back to the family home where her grandmother lived.
Because of the good living environment of this factory, there are constantly local units working here temporarily. For example, there are public security bureaus, forestry bureaus, judicial offices, military garrisons, and even nursing homes. However, these units are temporarily occupied, and only the nursing home has stayed here for the longest time.
The nursing home and grandparents are in the same family home, and there is a family building not far from the nursing home, which is empty and there is nothing.
Grandpa Liu, a former colleague of my grandfather, had been living alone in this family building when he was alive. After Grandpa Liu died of illness, this building has been empty. And in this family building, there is one thing that makes Qianqian's heart ache for the rest of his life.
She remembers one day her grandmother gave her a key and asked her to check if there was anything missing in Grandpa Liu's room. This room has not been visited since Grandpa Liu died. Qianqian opened the door of the room, and the books inside were piled up as high as a mountain, many of them were unopened "xx quotations" and so on, how could these books be everywhere, Qianqian couldn't figure it out. She was just about to lock the door and leave, when a villager from the bottom of the mountain suddenly broke in, he scared shallow away, and then found a bag and stole all the books and furniture inside. These people have done this more than once, they steal the precious medicinal materials, steel bars, and power grids in the factory, and they steal them in bundles every night, and every night they go out in groups to climb over the wall and pick the locks, and steal day and night. Although my grandmother was in charge of all the keys to the factory, she was still unguarded against these rampant thieves.
Every time I lost something in the factory, my grandmother blamed herself and felt heartache. This is a state thing, she did not protect well. Asa also hated them very much, but she could only watch them take everything in the factory again and again.
When I passed by this family building, my heart was full of self-blame. She was thinking about it when the fool Zhang Hammer walked over step by step from the nursing home. Zhang Hammer's eyes were very wide, his mouth was grinning, and he immediately ran away every time he saw him. Because this guy has a bad head and can beat people. He often walked on the road with a piece of money and turned his head and stared at the beads of his eyes, afraid of him, and often blocked the door of his grandmother's house, for fear that Zhang Hammer would come in.
This time, she was so frightened that she ran away when she saw Zhang Hammer. When the director of the nursing home saw it, he smiled and said, "Shallow is back, don't be afraid, he won't beat you, he's like that."
"But he, you see he's chasing me?"
"He's scaring you into playing!"
I didn't believe it, so I ran back to my grandmother's house and found a few sticks to block the door in the yard.
"What's wrong, shallow?" Grandma was feeding the rabbits, and she turned her head and asked.
"Zhang Hammer is chasing after him, and he wants to beat me." Shallow frightened.
My grandfather had been sitting under the walnut tree, and he beckoned to him and said, "Come here, help me up."
Shallow turned his head, walked up to his grandfather for some reason, and helped him up. Grandpa pointed to the door and said, "Let's go!"
Qianqian had no choice but to help his grandfather open the door, and not far from the door, Zhang Hammer was staring at the beads of his eyes and walking step by step. Looking at him shallowly, he was frightened. My grandfather smiled and pointed at Zhang Hammer and said, "You—come here."
It was very strange that Zhang Hammer actually understood his grandfather's words, and there was a trace of fear in his eyes. Isn't he a fool, doesn't he know people? Shallow thought to himself.
Zhang Hammer stopped when he walked up to his grandfather, who stretched out his finger and knocked on the door of his head and said, "Bastard!"
When Zhang Hammer heard this, he walked to the next room step by step. Aunt Lin, who was cooking for the elderly in the nursing home, heard the voice and immediately walked out, she said hello to her grandfather, moved a stool and went back to cooking.
When the director of the nursing home saw his grandfather sitting down at the door, he came over and handed him a cigarette, lit it for him, and then smiled and said, "Let my granddaughter help me out?"
"Hmm!" Grandpa gave him a disdainful look and didn't want to talk to him.
Shallow didn't bother to pay attention to him, she felt that this dean would always be so coy.
The dean is also a clear-eyed person, he knows that the family in front of him is the master who cannot be offended, and people don't take him seriously at all.
There is a reason why my grandfather didn't like this dean, earlier my grandfather decided to move down to live, he took a fancy to an empty yard in the nursing home and asked the dean to vacate it, this dean didn't have the eyesight to make a price out of it, this time he was angry with his grandfather, and asked his grandfather to call the city, so he reluctantly vacated the house.
This is a person who has no eyesight and likes to be tough, Wang Qianqian and his grandfather don't like him.
Shallow returned to the yard and followed behind her grandmother. Grandma has already started cooking, and Grandma is a person who can't be idle, and she seems to be busy every day.
When it was time to eat, Qianqian remembered that his grandfather was still outside, so he pushed open the door and helped his grandfather back.
My grandfather's legs and feet were inconvenient, and his daily life was monotonous and boring. He usually listens to dramas and political news when he is quiet, and he also has a cat, and every day when his grandfather sleeps, the cat sleeps on the side of his grandfather's pillow and stays in the bed. Looking at the white cat, he was speechless for a moment.
In the evening, my grandfather went to bed early, and Qianqian and her grandmother sat on the sofa to watch the TV series starring Siqin Gaowa. The signal is not very good in the mountains, and there are a lot of snowflakes on the TV. This TV has been around for more than ten years, and when he was a few years old, he had heard Grandpa Liu say that he had made a TV for them considering that they were bored in the mountains after retirement. Television was scarce in those days, and it was difficult to see television throughout the county. And this TV is still an imported Japanese product, and the understanding of the outside world from childhood to adulthood all depends on this TV.
What impressed her the most was that when she was a child, she watched the news every day, and her grandfather's colleagues Grandpa Liu and Grandpa Wang would come early in the morning. Qianqian didn't like Grandpa Liu and Grandpa Wang, every time she saw them, she was full of disdain and disdain.
Once, Qianqian sat in the room again and pointed at Grandpa Wang and said, "Don't let you see, you go out." Don't let you watch our home TV. ”
Grandpa Wang was very angry when he heard this, and replied to her: "Is this your TV, this is the public's, this is what we share!"
Looking at Grandpa Wang's angry appearance, he closed his mouth in fright. Grandpa Liu immediately persuaded Grandpa Wang: "She is still a child, why bother with her?"
Grandpa Wang couldn't listen to it, and continued to look at himself, this little girl made a face for herself every time she came, which was unbearable!
Wang Qianqian didn't appreciate Grandpa Liu's affection, she snorted and stepped her face to the side. She didn't like this Grandpa Liu from the bottom of her heart, because he often forcibly poured her grandmother's wine in private and kissed her grandmother's face, and told her grandmother that Grandpa Liu was very bad, and her grandmother just said that he was playing with him, don't take it seriously. But Grandpa Liu may really be playing.