Chapter 3: Returning Home
People are going to die, and money is already a foreign thing to Zhou Shen, but he still has to think about his grandmother's future life.
Only when you have money can you let others take care of you.
There is no money, and there is no filial son in front of the 100-day bed.
Because Zhou Shen didn't answer the phone yesterday, the project manager was going to scold him for a bloody.
But when Zhou Shen took out the inspection report, the project manager immediately swallowed back the words in his throat, comforted him with a gentle voice that he had never seen before, and helped him go through the resignation procedures at an unprecedented speed.
And this month is paid according to the whole month's salary, including performance bonuses, overtime pay, previous arrears of project bonuses, etc., and no one is paid to him.
Before leaving, he personally sent him to the elevator and watched him leave.
Zhou Shen's hometown is in Huaijiang City, Dongjiang Province, next door to the magic capital, more than 400 kilometers away from the magic capital.
At half past three in the afternoon, Zhou Shen carried his suitcase out of Huaijiang High-speed Railway Station South Station.
Then get on the online car-hailing car that has been booked in advance and go straight to Xiaozhou Village, Linhuai Town, Xinyang County, below Huaijiang City.
Zhou Shen sat in the back seat, looking at the silhouettes of the rapidly regressing street trees on both sides of the road, and his heart became more and more nervous.
He didn't know what to do with his grandmother when he got back.
How sad would my grandmother be if she knew that her only eldest grandson was going to die in a few months?
"Hey......"
Thinking of such a picture, Zhou Shen couldn't help but feel sad and sighed deeply.
Half an hour later, the car entered the Linhuai Town area, and on both sides of the road were new rural villas, with elegant environment and shady trees.
The small villas here are all rural pension houses, which are very cheap, about 150,000 yuan for a small yard on two floors of 120 square meters, and 200,000 yuan for a three-story 180 square meters.
However, there are very few people who buy, and young people go to big cities, even if they get married and buy a house, they go to Xinyang County and Huaijiang City to buy.
After driving further along the spacious cement road for less than two kilometers or so, the online car-hailing car turned left into Xiaozhou Village and stopped in front of a two-story villa.
His family's old house a few years ago was also demolished, square to square, and he compensated the village with more than 40,000 yuan and took a small house of 120 square meters.
After paying the fare on his mobile phone, Zhou Shen got out of the car and opened the reserve area, wanting to take the box out.
As a result, the force was too strong, and the position of the liver area in the right abdomen suddenly twitched, and the pain made his eyes black for a while, and he almost fainted to the ground.
The driver in the driver's seat saw from the rearview mirror that Zhou Shen was holding the trunk of the car and did not respond for a long time, so he opened the door and walked down in curiosity.
When he saw Zhou Shen clutching his chest and showing a painful look on his face, he couldn't help asking, "What's wrong, are you okay?" ”
Zhou Shen clutched his chest and shook his head.
The driver helped him take out the suitcase and put it on the ground, and then quickly drove away.
Zhou Shen held on to the suitcase and breathed a sigh of relief, waiting for the sharp stinging pain to gradually disappear, and then pulled the suitcase and slowly walked towards the gate of the courtyard.
Under the wall at the entrance of the wall, there were many vegetables planted in the flower bed that was supposed to be planted with green plants or flowers, green onions, cabbage, lettuce, leeks, and shelves were built on the side of the wall, planted green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, and so on.
This is true not only of his family, but of every household around him.
Rural people's vegetable planting skills are deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and they are embarrassed to go out to meet people if they don't focus on vegetables in front of the house and behind the house.
Hearing the sound of the suitcase pulley outside the door, Zhang Xiu'e, Zhou Shen's grandmother, who was folding clothes in the house, stood up and looked at the door, and was immediately pleasantly surprised when she saw that it was the eldest grandson who came back.
"Dashen, you're back!"
The little old lady shouted and hurriedly greeted her.
Da Shen is a little awkward to read in Mandarin, but when he speaks it in their local dialect, he is very intimate with the pronunciation of "Da Sun".
Zhou Shen happily stretched out his hand to hug the little old lady who was less than 1.6 meters tall and a little hunchbacked, and shouted happily: "Grandma! I miss you. ”
As he spoke, he lowered his head and kissed a few times on the top of his grandmother's gray head.
The little old lady reached out and dragged the trolley box in Zhou Shen's hand, and said with a smile on her face: "I didn't tell my grandmother in advance when I came back, and I said that I missed my grandmother." ”
"I want to surprise you......"
Zhou Shen had a sunny smile on his face, but a trace of pain flashed between his eyebrows.
……
The eldest grandson came back, and the little old lady cooked a lot of vegetables at night, including fish, meat, melons, fruits and vegetables, and killed an old hen that laid eggs.
The small cottage in the new countryside is not allowed to build a shed to raise chickens, so the little old lady transformed the side of the small yard where the sundries are put into a chicken coop, which raises seven or eight old hens, and can usually eat some fresh eggs, and the excess can be sold for some money to buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.
In addition to eggs, the little old lady will also fold the vegetables that can't be eaten into the small three-wheeled ones and ride them to the door of the town's vegetable market to set up a stall and sell them.
In fact, Zhou Shen will send money to the little old lady every month, she is not short of money, but she is just a habit of thrift and thrift.
Zhou Shen ate in small bites, chewing slowly.
Rice, vegetables, chicken, pig, and fish are all ground with your teeth before you swallow them into your stomach.
When drinking the soup with a spoon, blow off the oil splashes on it, and see that there are no broken bones in the soup before daring to drink it.
Although the little old lady on the side was puzzled, why did the eldest grandson who used to eat and gobble up his meals now swallow slowly like a little girl?
But the joy of the eldest grandson's return overshadowed the doubts in his heart, and he didn't ask in detail.
Instead, he asked about Zhou Shen's girlfriend Zhang Zihan.
"Dashen, when are you and Xiaohan going to get married?"
"Uh......"
Zhou Shen wanted to find an excuse to perfunctory the past first, and wait a few days to say it early.
But seeing his grandmother's eager eyes, he couldn't bear to lie, so he was silent for a while and said, "Grandma, I broke up with Zihan. ”
To Zhou Shen's surprise, the little old lady didn't show any surprised expression when she heard this, and she didn't even ask why she broke up, but just comforted: "It's okay, it's divided, my family is so good, I will definitely be able to find a better girl in the future." ”
Zhou Shen looked at his grandmother's plain and kind face, and couldn't help but feel warm in his heart.
This little old lady with little culture is stronger, braver and more understanding than he imagined.
Next, Zhou Shen and his grandmother chatted about their parents' shortcomings.
After dinner, there was a shout at the door.
It was the neighbor's grandmother next door who asked Grandma Zhou Shen to go to the town for a square dance.
Seeing Zhou Shen coming back, the old lady next door came in and chatted a few words, and then urged his grandmother to leave quickly.
Grandma Zhou Shen was reluctant to go at first and wanted to stay at home with her eldest grandson, but under the persuasion of the old lady next door, and Zhou Shen also said to go with him, so she took off her apron and locked the door.
Go out and sit in the old lady next door, and drive towards the center of the town, two kilometers away.
The old lady next door is in her sixties, and the old man is happy to be a thief, shuttling in the endless flow of traffic.
Linhuai Town is located at the intersection of the three counties under the jurisdiction of Huaijiang City, and there are many cars and passengers passing by every day, and people come and go.
Soon, the old lady next door drove the car to the original town center primary school.
The primary school in the center of the town was relocated to the north of the town, and the buildings left behind served as the office of the town government and the activity center for the elderly, while the cement playground was paved with plastic surfaces at the town's expense.
Half as a basketball court and half as a square dance venue for the elderly.
At this time, the LED lamp post above the venue is lit up, the lights are bright, there are many people playing basketball on the basketball court, and on the other side of the square dance field, there are also many middle-aged and elderly people.
Zhou Shen followed the old lady to the square dance venue.
He didn't pay attention to it before, but today he found out that the square dance venue was actually divided into several "factions".
There are slow-paced square dances for the elderly, middle-aged square dances and ballroom dances with moderate intensity, and fast-paced square dances for little women.
A large trumpet was placed in front of each phalanx.
And his grandmother and the old lady next door naturally belong to the phalanx of the elderly.
Watching his grandmother greet a group of old ladies familiarly, and then waving his hands and feet along with the dance, Zhou Shen's face was also filled with a happy smile.
But smiling and smiling, his eyes couldn't help but moisten.
Zhou Shen turned his back and wiped the corners of his eyes, and walked towards the fitness equipment area on the riverbank to the north of the school.
Under the light of the shade of the trees, some people are playing chess, some are playing cards, and some are practicing single and parallel bars, or slapping or hitting the trees, and all of them are elderly, and they are very vigorous, and they are very embarrassed to see Zhou Shen, a young man, and at the same time very envious.
Once upon a time, he was as agile as these old people, but now he is just a young man, but he is already faltering and terminally ill, which is really ironic to think about.
Zhou Shen walked up to the old man who was hitting the tree with his back, and asked casually, "Dad, is there anything special about hitting the tree?" ”
The old man smiled and said, "Of course, it's fitness." ”
Zhou Shen was puzzled: "Can you still exercise if you hit a tree?" Who said that? ”
The old man said: "You don't understand this, from the perspective of traditional medicine, hitting the tree with the back can dredge the meridians, strengthen the righteousness and drive away evil spirits;
From the perspective of modern medicine, impingement to the back can also relax the sacrospinal muscles on both sides of the spine, improve local blood circulation, and increase the body's immunity.
Long-term exercise has the effect of relieving neck, shoulder, back pain, cough and phlegm, indigestion and so on. ”
"Oooo
Zhou Shen nodded again and again.
He originally thought that these old men were feudal superstitions and didn't know how to practice blindly, but the reasoning of others made him speechless.
After chatting with the old man for a few minutes, I found that people know a lot, not only know all kinds of meridian knowledge, but also have a deep understanding of scientific health knowledge.
Zhou Shen was embarrassed when he heard this, and realized that he was really ignorant.
I can't wait to follow the old man and hit the tree twice.
It's a pity that he can only sigh when he thinks of his body.