Seventy-two and seventy-three years passed slowly, and Zhou Jiao was unexpectedly promoted by a generation, with a nephew and nephew who had already become a family, and naturally could not escape the birth of her nephew.

In the past two years, she has been going to her hometown with gifts, and since Mai Miao got married, the two brothers and Ziwu have also started a family.

And her family has never had the opportunity to return to their hometown. First, it is even more inconvenient to ask for leave, and secondly, there is already a surge at the bottom, and the pressure on the Zhou family can be imagined.

All this made Zhou Jiao dare not leave home easily.

Outsiders jokingly call Zhou Xiao "perennial youth", and in addition to ridiculing him that he is still young after he is over fifty, he also has the meaning that he has been as stable as Mount Tai in neutrality.

But who knows how much effort her father and Zhang Guoqing have put into this in private?

- Not only do you have to secretly help your innocent comrades-in-arms, but you also have to entertain the digital group. This is not explained in half a word.

Since ancient times, the lonely minister is the most difficult, especially the old chief of Zhou Xiaozheng is getting old, and the moment when people are old and will die one day, how can there be any real long live?

And what the Zhou family can do is to wait and watch the situation like the Yi family and other families and maintain his position. But since he is already in the wind and rain, and he is not in the same stream as some people, how can he be as stable as Mount Tai.

This year, there have been big ups and downs, and after a long time of suffering from the cold bench, this time he has come back to preside over the actual work of Zhongkou, but it is still not easy to correct the chaos.

Seventy-four years can be imagined how much more worrying it will be......

After an unquiet year, the old lady was admitted to the hospital again.

This time it's not as simple as catching a cold, not to mention that her physical functions are getting worse and lower as she gets older, and several of her closest old comrades-in-arms have also died in accidents.

This series of blows crushed Mrs. Cheng at once. She didn't understand why these old comrades, who had been in the wind and rain for decades, had traveled south and north for decades in the war, and had never let them fall.

This old man has reached this point, and she has not revealed a little bit of her inner words, she still doesn't want the next generation to get involved in the turmoil.

Instead, she used high-sounding reasons. In the words of the old lady, she has done everything she needs to do, and it is time to finish this life.

In the ward, Zhou Jiao burst into tears and choked up: "Who said that? They haven't married yet, and I don't understand anything. Auntie, you can't say that, my aunt should be so sad to hear it. ”

The old lady held one of her hands, stretched out her other hand to wipe the tears from her face, and chuckled: "Silly child, people will always leave one day, I have lived long enough than your grandmother......"

"Don't speak, I won't listen." Zhou Jiao shook her head desperately, held back her tears, and grabbed her hand with her backhand, "Grandma, you are obedient, you must not think like this, good days are ahead." You will live with us to be a hundred years old, and I want to take you to see the revitalized Gu family. ”

The old lady patted her with a smile, "Okay, I'll live a human life, it's okay now." ”

Regardless of whether the old man's words were sincere or not, Sijiucheng could no longer let her recuperate. The only way to stay away is to go out and walk around more often, so as to evacuate the depression in your heart.

This night, after Mrs. Cheng, who was forced to eat a bowl of porridge by Zhou Jiao, fell asleep, the people of the Cheng family who stayed in Beijing and the Zhou family gathered together, and after repeated consideration, Cheng Lao finally planned to wait for his wife's body to recover some strength, and the two of them went out to visit relatives and friends.

"When she was young, she longed to walk around and see the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, and this time we can finally get our wish."

Cheng Lao looked at the worried juniors, smiled and said words of relief, "This time, let's go to the second child first, and visit the old friends by the way, and then go to the eldest for a while, I also miss the children." ”

Cheng Ruzhu heard this and said: "I just want to go out for a walk." ”

Cheng Lao glared at her, "You can't go now, there are old and young, what are you going to do?" Take care of your family first, and when you retire, let Congwen accompany you wherever you want. ”

"But what can you do when you go out with my mom and no one around?"

"Who says there's no one? Auntie and the guards aren't people, aren't they? Okay, that's it, you work hard in the unit, and we'll come back for the New Year after a walk. ”

"Dad, don't forget to keep in touch with us wherever you go. There are also remote places with inconvenient transportation, don't want to go, if you want me to say that it is not bad to go to the beach to recuperate. ”

Cheng Lao smiled and said nothing. People don't feel at ease before they leave, they are not children, not to mention that there are guards with them, can they still lose it?

Now he only hopes that his wife, who has suffered all his life, can live a few more years in good health, waiting to enter the coffin hand in hand with him. As for the far away or something, my wife can go to the ends of the earth happily.

Zhou Jiao opened her mouth and glanced at the few people present, but she still didn't say anything after all. She better stop making trouble, she just walked for a while, but not for long.

So in the following time, in addition to commuting to work, Zhou Jiao basically stayed at Cheng's house to take care of the old lady herself. She just wants the old man to be in better health and get together for a longer time, and the rest seems to be all nonsense.

A month later, when Mrs. Cheng was able to move freely, and in her words, it was no problem to walk as fast as she could, Mrs. Cheng first led the Zhou family up the mountain to worship Zhou Jinyu and Gu Mingzhu and his wife.

Standing in front of the grave, Mrs. Cheng touched the three words Gu Mingzhu on the stone tablet, and she didn't know what she thought, so she kept looking at the Zhou family with a smile on her face.

Zhou Jiao felt that maybe the old lady was very happy, she could finally bring Zhou's family, so that the eldest sister under the ground could finally have a successor.

On the third day, Cheng Lao and Mrs. Cheng, who had settled the eldest grandson's family at home, finally left together and embarked on a journey.

Unlike Cheng Lao's plan in advance to go to Cheng Siyu first, this time the two of them got on the train to Jiangcheng directly, preparing to rest for a few more days and divert to Lingnan.

Zhou Jiao thought that she should be able to guess the final destination of the old man's trip, why Lingnan?

In addition to the fact that the climate is more adapted to recuperation all the way south, there is another reason. It was the second hometown of her grandfather, grandmother and old lady who fled from the Gu family.

Mrs. Cheng is missing her relatives.

People left so suddenly, not only Zhou Jiao was not used to it, but even the three children felt that the compound seemed to be even more deserted, and they didn't know if there was a lack of elders who loved them the most, or a lack of a place where they could visit at any time.

Fortunately, for more than a month or two later, the old couple who did not forget to visit their old friends would contact each other at intervals, listening to the laughter of the old lady on the phone.

That's it!

Maybe going out for a walk is really suitable for health. finally made up for Zhou Jiao's regret for the lack of old lady's company.