Hard times have room

Chapter 1083 Extra Chapter Space
Pauline sent away her husband when she was 65 years old. After his husband left, she lived alone in the small courtyard that Deng Weiguo bought before marriage.

She didn't want to live with her children and grandchildren, it was too noisy. If it wasn't for this, she wouldn't have separated them all out after they got married.

Her parents went there more than ten years ago, and when they left, they held her and her brother's hand and asked them to support each other.

Wen Xun participated in the college entrance examination in [-]. Like her, he was admitted to Hunan University. After graduation, he was directly assigned to work in Xiangnan City, and then got married and had children. At the end of the year, he came back two or three times.

Although there is a house in Shanghe Village, it is still a good blue brick and large tile house. But since her parents passed away, Baolin will go back to live for a few days during her vacation, take care of the weeds in the yard, and burn paper and incense for her parents. .

But after she retired, it took a lot longer to go back to live. Although she was already married, in her heart, Shanghe Village has always been her home. Like before, there are too many good memories of her there.

Maybe it was too boring to be alone, so Pauline started to clean up the space she hadn't moved much since she got married and had children.

All the miscellaneous things were sorted out and reorganized. The useful and memorable things were left, and the ones that were useless and didn’t like were dealt with directly.

She also went to the steel factory to find acquaintances and built three iron shelves for her, all of which were placed against the wall. These three shelves almost filled the room of more than ten square meters, leaving only one meter in the middle. Square out of the open space.

In the space, I stored 80 catties of rice, [-] catties of flour, [-] catties of salt, [-] catties of oil, [-] catties of meat, and [-] free-range chickens raised in the village, as well as some that she liked very much. For cooked food, privately operated small restaurants were not allowed in the city before, but after the [-]s, these gradually increased, with so many things, a shelf was filled.

She doesn't know if she has a third life, but she just wants to save some food. If she could have so much food in her space at the beginning, their family's life would be much better. Food is the first priority. These grains are enough for one person to eat for the first half of the year.

On the other shelf, Pauline put books, full of books. Her biggest hobby in her life is reading books, and she has written seven thick volumes of reading notes.

She spends too much time with books, especially after the age of 50. For a while, she likes to buy books at street stalls. They are all old books. The older they are, the more she likes them, novels, philosophy, classics I have dabbled in books and so on, some of them I like very much, but some have only read a dozen or twenty pages before being thrown aside without interest.

When she was young, she didn't have a mobile phone and TV. When she was old, it was not uncommon. Her only hobby was listening to songs with a Walkman, and she was equipped with several power banks for this purpose.

She also used a wooden box to put away all the mp3 lyrics of the mobile phone power bank and the like, which are all traces of her past life and memories of another hometown.

On the last shelf, Baolin collected things that she found interesting, such as Yao girls' full set of clothes and silver accessories. They were so beautiful. When she saw they were on sale, she immediately started, but she was no longer a little girl. Afraid of other people's strange eyes, those beautiful ethnic costumes have not been worn, and they are all kept for collection.

In the early 80s, the antique market was really popular. When Pauline went to other cities on business trips, the antique market was a must-visit. She didn’t know much about looking at things. As long as she liked it and the price was not high, she would buy it. , Just try to be happy.

These things she liked very much, Pauline wanted to take them away, so they put them in the space. When the children and grandchildren asked, they said that they had to find someone to deal with them.

Deng Weiguo's life savings, after he left, Paulin directly divided the four children equally, and there is no problem of who has more and who has less. In her eyes, the children are all the same.

It's useless to make trouble, she's just lazy to take care of those who don't know interest.

As for her savings, all of them are stored in small gold nuggets. When she is going, she will give a part to her children and grandchildren. She doesn't know how to invest, and she doesn't want to buy a house. It's enough for her family to have a house to live in, so just put the money directly. It was replaced by precious metals. If her memory was correct, gold should also be quite valuable.

As for the rest, she will put it in the space and leave it for future generations. This is one of her preparations to keep some money for herself.

In addition to gold, Paulin also bought a lot of pearls, silver and jade ornaments, which cost her a lot of money. In addition to the salary, the things that she bought at the junkyard in the past also came in great use. In [-], Paulin Sold a very fancy vase for a lot of money, otherwise she wouldn't be able to buy so many things.

At the beginning of the [-]th century, Pauline sold the valuable stamps she had collected and traveled all over the country. After all, if you have money, you must enjoy life. Travel is one of them. People go out of town because it's a bit messy, but now they dare, this country is developing in a good direction at a very rapid speed.

For more than ten years, Pauline took the train to visit places she had read in books but had never been to before, and it was always satisfying to get what she wanted.

At the beginning, there was someone by my side, and later she became her alone, she was not used to it, but the effect of time was too strong, only when I saw something related to him by chance, I suddenly realized that he was It's been so long since she left.

Paulin, who is in her early seventies, can't run anymore. She has completely become an old lady. Although her back is still straight, her hair is all gray, but her hands and feet are still neat, and she doesn't need special care, and she doesn't add anything to her children. too much trouble.

It was still that small yard. It had been waiting for her all the time. Pauline planted some green vegetables and peppers in the yard, as well as some easy-to-live flowers. In spring, the yard would look beautiful.

She still lives alone, and she likes this kind of cleanliness. Every week, her children and grandchildren come to see her. It's quite lively.It's not her cooking anyway.

When people reach a certain age, they will get tired of the daily necessities. Pauline has not liked cooking since she was 50 years old. Someone with average craftsmanship took the initiative to take over the spatula. Cooking, if you really put the burden on another person, he will find it annoying.

Pauline went there when she was 75 years old, and it happened to be spring, her favorite season, with flowers everywhere, so beautiful.

When she arrived, she felt it herself, and asked her grandson to take her back to Shanghe Village. She went to her parents' graves to offer incense, and after cleaning the old house, Paulin left, there was nothing to be missed. Well, the most reluctant person has already left.

Back to the small courtyard in the county town, Baolin burned her diaries of life trivia, and did not leave room for them. She was unwilling to share these with others, only she knew it.

Before she went, she had already explained to her children, cremated, half of the ashes were scattered into the sea, the remaining half was divided into two, and a part was sent back to Shanghe Village, where a pit was dug beside her parents' graves and buried. , and the other part was buried with her wife. Although she yearned for freedom, she really couldn't bear them.

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