Chapter 197: Almsgiving

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Jing'an Senior Residence is located on one of the most remote streets in the district, which is called Bushi. It is a very historic street, close to the Diaoyu City, integrated with the city and existing independently. The whole street is beautiful and quiet, there are a lot of hard-to-find scenery and no scenery. There was nothing but lonely old men walking slowly on the street and rows of plane trees with shriveled trunks. The only large buildings are Jing'an Apartment for the Elderly and two grocery stores, and there are no other buildings. In the history of the district, this is undoubtedly the place where peace and tranquility can be felt the most, with lush trees, high clouds, and no city hustle and bustle, just simple tranquility.

Every day at 3:15 p.m., in front of the windowsill of the first room on the left side of the first floor of the Jing'an Senior Apartment, there will be a gray-haired old woman who will put her hand out of the window, gently caress the broad leaves of the plane tree, and enjoy the scenery outside the window with her empty eyes open. It's been a habit she's developed over the years. At this time, she sat quietly in front of the window as before, and the branches and leaves of the plane tree reached out to the window, and she stretched out her hand to gently caress the leaves.

With a creak, the door opened. She listened carefully, after so many years, she had long been accustomed to perceiving the world with her ears.

"Mary, do you know that there is only land and tomorrow in this world. She said.

The original name of Mary in her mouth is not Mary, her name is Zhang Su, and she is a caregiver in an elderly apartment. She has been taken care of by her since she arrived at the Jing'an Senior Residence, and the relationship between the two has become as close as that of a mother and daughter after years of getting along, and the conversation with each other seems casual and unscrupulous.

Gentle footsteps came from behind her, Zhang Su didn't answer her words immediately, she felt a pair of hands on the handle of the wheelchair on her back, then her own wheelchair moved, and then she slowly left the window sill.

"Aunt Shuqing, are you going out for a walk today?" Zhang Su said. "I really don't like the name, though. ”

Shuqing has always felt guilty about Mary, so she always calls Mary Zhang Su, she says that this is a nickname for her, and she is also separated from other people, because she is blind and can't see. But Zhang Su never liked the name, and her son told her that it was a very old game name - Super Mario! She also thought it sounded strange and unearthly! But she only talked about it, and did not show boredom. She had heard Mary's story at least 1,000 times! and the town that had been burned to the ground. Zhang Su is a kind and easy-going person.

"Well, put me under that plane tree!

"Good!"

"What a name!"

"Auntie, you've been calling for 20 years!

Shuqing smiled and didn't speak! Zhang Su pushed her out of the door, and she heard the sound of the door opening completely and hitting the wall.

"I'm 80 years old, I can't call it for a few years!" she pursed her lips and paused, "She's mineβ€”"

"She is your benefactor!" Zhang Su took her words with a smile, "I know, the whole Jing'an people know!"

"Hehe~" Shuqing laughed, her voice was old and hoarse, and her throat rumbled.

Zhang Su immediately put a thin blanket under her armpit over her leg.

"It's autumn, you have to be careful! You emphysema, you can't do it again. She rolled up the sides of the blanket and pressed it under her thighs.

"I'm fine!" she smiled again. "I'll only stay for 20 minutes, you can push me when you're 50, and if you don't have time, then I can go in by myself!"

"But don't, I don't dare forget what happened last time. Our dean can treat you as a hero! You are our calling card. ”

Once, Zhang Su left Shuqing under the sycamore tree to enjoy the shade. Later, she wanted to go back to the house by herself, but Zhang Su didn't have time to come because she was taking care of an old man who had fallen, and she didn't want other caregivers to take care of her, so she groped into the house by herself, but she didn't expect the wheelchair to overturn, and she hit a plane tree that had just been planted. Because she is the oldest person who has lived in Jing'an for the longest time, she has lived there for 20 years, and she is also a blind old man. Therefore, the dean often uses her to advertise and call on more elderly people to come to Jing'an Elderly Apartment, and because her senior apartment is full all year round, the dean requires all the nursing staff in the hospital to take special care of her. However, this apartment for the elderly is indeed very good, all kinds of hardware facilities and software supporting facilities are very scientific and technological, and it is also very humane, especially the caregivers here are all certified to work, and they must be loving and patient, and if they receive a complaint, they will be dismissed immediately once verified. Even so, Shuqing only trusts Zhang Su alone. But the last time her wheelchair overturned, Zhang Su was almost fired.

"The old immortal business card!hehehehe~" She laughed again.

"Okay, you have to be careful!" Zhang Su fixed her wheelchair under the plane tree, and then put a communicator in her hand in her hand, "Tell me in time if you have anything, I'll come over right away!"

She nodded, and then heard footsteps, farther and farther away.

It has just entered autumn, and the weather is very sunny and the breeze is light. Shuqing looked up, as if looking at the plane tree above her head, and after a moment she lowered her head again. Then slowly close your eyes.

She comes here every day, but in her heart she wants to go every day is not here, but the Buddha Hall. She thought she should recite Buddhist scriptures every day, and she had a copy in her room, which was given to her by a woman named Vermilion. She knew she was as old as she was, but she was able-bodied and her eyes were bright.

"Sister, read this!" she said.

"I can't see!" she stared blankly at the source of the voice, her face expressionless.

"I can come and chant to you every morning, and I have to chant every morning. ”

"Thank you so much. ”

"I know that town. ”

"Which town?"

"Dragon Gate!"

"Oh, really?"

"My son used to be in charge of rebuilding it. I've heard him talk about it. ”

"Oh, is it built there?"

"Oh, that's pitiful, all the people are burned to a black mass, like burnt wooden sticks, you know, wood, I burned those wood fires when I was a girl in the countryside. ”

Shuqing didn't speak, her face twitched slightly.

"No one wants to go there, it's all about the smell of burnt meat. No one wanted to open shops and live there, and the living people left, moved to small villages, or to the town next door. The government and schools are gone. My son said that the reconstruction is very old. I heard it was haunted!"

"Why are you here?" Shuqing suddenly changed the question, she didn't really want to hear the story there, although she asked Zhang Su to read the news to her every day, she didn't want to hear from the mouth of this old woman she met for the first time. "I mean, you have a son?"

The old woman was silent for a moment, and then said, "Hey~ I can't get along with my daughter-in-law! The old man at the head of our house is gone, and I can still have company here! How boring it is to live alone! I have come to see it many times, and I like almsgiving very much, and I am also very satisfied with this apartment for the elderly! The dean is an acquaintance of my son." (To be continued.) )