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Chapter 332 Early Death
Si Ningning broke up with Si Zhennan on the platform. She started her journey home on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, and arrived at Si's house on the 28th. After many twists and turns, going round and round, and finally on the afternoon of the 29th, I took the train back to H province again.

Amidst the sound of the train moving forward, Si Ningning put her elbows on the table and covered her eyes with her hands on her forehead. Under the smoky afterglow of the evening, she was the only one walking against the road in the huge carriage. Alone, so exhausted...

And at about the same time, the Mo family in Beijing set off from the Diaoyutai compound in Ganzikou in a mighty way, and rushed back to the old house in Guxiang to celebrate the New Year before nightfall.

Mo's mother is busy in the kitchen with her two daughters. Mo's father, who has shaved hair and two white temples, has a cigarette butt in his mouth. Can't stop coughing a few words:

"Severe crackdowns everywhere outside, how many times have I said, don't put those things out, don't put those things out, I won't listen! Cough cough——"

"You, you just want to piss me off, don't you?"

At first, Dad Mo just stretched his neck and yelled at the house, and the more he talked, he stopped repairing things. He stopped at the entrance of the living room, and then shouted at the old wooden door of the main house:
"What good does it do you to piss me off? If you piss me off, I won't come back next time!"

"It's New Year's Eve, don't talk about it..."

"If you don't come back, get out! Get out of your Diaoyutai compound!"

Mo's mother poked her head out in the kitchen, and before she could finish her sentence, an old lady wearing an old-fashioned gown from the late Qing Dynasty and full of silver hair suddenly came out of the main house, ran up to Mo's father with sprained feet, and grabbed him. Father Mo's ears began to beat and scold:
"You have no heart, you don't forget your roots! The one who confessed is your own father, how did you say that?"

Grandma Mo was quite tall when she was young, but now she is old and her bones have shrunk. She is a short old lady of about 1.5 meters. According to her size, she can't reach Dad Mo's ears at all. It seems that Dad Mo took the initiative to bring the ears closer to her. , let her pull like.

"There are all the brats in this yard, and you are the father? What can you teach the brats to be?"

Grandma Mo beat and reprimanded her with a sullen face. Father Mo dared not resist when he was beaten because he was an old man.

Every year when I come back, I have this kind of experience. The old man made a big fuss for a while before Mo's mother led the children out of the kitchen to persuade them to make peace. After coaxing for a long time, she coaxed Grandma Mo back to sit in the room.

Let the old man miss his grandson for more than half a year to sit and talk with him, Dad Mo sent his daughters to clean up the room where they slept at night, and worked with Mom Mo in the kitchen. The body is still tough, not worse than last year."

Mo's mother squinted at him: "Tell me about you, there are many ways to understand mother's physical condition, and you will know this trick after so many years... After all, you are an older person, and your psychological endurance is the priority. What are you going to do if you get angry?"

Mo's father rubbed his chest and asked Mo's mother: "Then you come next time?"

"I can't." Mom Mo waved her hands quickly.

The mother-in-law is a lady in the last years of Guangxu. Although she is reasonable and never judges others, Mo's mother has been educated by the new organization, and she still doesn't get along with her old man. This is why the Mo family usually lives in the compound and never comes back the main reason.

"Mom likes Ah Bei, you want to give the set of words to Ah Bei, can't you let Ah Bei go in the future?"

"It's good to pay attention to this." Mo's father gave a "hmm" indifferently, and approved the proposal.

If it works, he won't have to rush up to get his ears pulled with his old face in the future.

To be honest, it was embarrassing in front of a few youngsters in the family.

In the kitchen, the husband and wife were planning to shake the pot, while on the other side, on the kang in the main room, Mo Bei, the pot-backer, sat quietly on one side of the kang table, watching Grandma Mo groping around in the room, and finally took out two pots from the old cabinet The malted milk was pushed along the small table to his hand.

Grandma Mo smiled kindly: "I just bought the previous one, I will take it with me when I leave tomorrow, and take it back to drink with my sisters."

Grandma Mo valued Mo Bei well, but she never favored the other two daughters of the Mo family.

"I have them at home, and grandma keeps them for herself."

"Your mother bought it, is it the same as grandma's? Keep it!"

The old lady had a stern face, and Mo Bei was not a person who could coax others, so he had to keep silent and compromise.

When I came here this time, apart from having the reunion dinner during the Chinese New Year, Mo Bei actually had other things in mind.

This matter has something to do with Mo's nagging in the courtyard before...

Grandma Mo was born at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. She was a good lady, but she received the education of that period. Apart from the nostalgia in her bones, she also had a little bit of calculating ability in her hands.

The current season is sensitive, and these things that Grandma Mo is messing with are not allowed, especially under the conditions of the Mo family, it is even more sensitive.

Grandma Mo doesn't usually wait around, and she still puts up incense tables and ancestral tablets on the side of the New Year's Day, and worships behind closed doors. Father Mo knows her well, so he always takes advantage of this time to order a few words...

Of course, Mo Bei's purpose is not to let Grandma Mo count his future and love for him.

Mo Bei just thinks that he is so confused now, if no one leads the way, no one wakes up, he may inadvertently do something wrong, hurt others, or in other words, make himself regret for half his life...

Thinking of this, Mo Beiling pursed his lips and lowered his head slightly, and the hands on his knees couldn't help but tightened.

Grandma Mo sat next to Mo Bei across the kang table, enjoying a moment of immersion. She turned her head sideways, her eyes forming a line of smiles on her wrinkled and old face, and asked kindly:
"Did our family, Abei, encounter any difficulties?"

Mo Beiling opened and pursed his lips, pursed and opened again, hesitating for a while, and then slowly opened his mouth after deliberating his words:
"Grandma, I like someone."

"Oh? When I came back last year, your mother still said that you are not enlightened. Let me tell you, it's not that you are not enlightened, it's just that the time has not come... Hehe, Ah Bei, tell me, which girl is it?"

"Her surname is Si, and she is also an educated youth. We went to the countryside and came to a place..."

Night fell outside the window, and the slightly shaking flames of the kerosene lamp in the room coated Mo Bei's body with a layer of warm gold. Mo Bei tilted his head and looked at Grandma Mo, his eyes twinkling forbearance, and his voice was like frost in late autumn, slightly cooling and pure, "She He is also from Beijing, and his home is in the alley next door to this alley."

There were no entertainment items in this era, and when people were free, they mostly moved benches and chatted together, or visited neighbors to pass the time.

The front and back alleys are close. Grandma Mo has been living in this courtyard since she married into the Mo family. The Si family is also an old resident here, so after Mo Bei said his surname was Si, he lived in the alley next door. Grandma Mo instantly Just know who he is talking about.

"I'm the one who is the engineer?" Grandma Mo asked, but when the words fell, she immediately said Si Ningning's name: "Is it Ningning?"

Mo Bei was taken aback for a moment, then nodded slowly after reacting.

In the following period of time, Mo Bei seldom spoke, and mostly listened to Grandma Mo moaning about what she knew, and some hearsay things about Si Jiadao:

"That child has a hard life. My mother left early, and my father was busy with work and didn't care about anything. He was still young at that time, so he was not much higher than the table, right?" Grandma Mo gestured with her hand, and continued Said: "There are no adults in the family, so the little girl guards the yard to eat and drink alone, and can still go to school..."

"People say that children from poor families are the first to be in charge of the family. This sentence is not entirely true. Children who are unprotected and loved are the first to mature... The flower bone that should be innocent and innocent is ripened early by the family and the world. How pitiful?"

Grandma Mo believed in Buddhism, and she was kindhearted in her bones. As she talked, she felt very uncomfortable in her heart.

But now that the topic has already touched on Si Ningning, thinking of what she heard in the past two days, Grandma Mo couldn't help being filled with righteous indignation:

"Her old man is not a good person. In the past, I was a classmate with your father, and they all learned about pens and rulers. I didn't realize that he was so incompetent at the time. He married a daughter who abused his daughter. The son is still making a fuss in the morning, and the little girl's face is covered by..."

Having said that, it seemed that she was afraid that Mo Bei would feel uncomfortable. Grandma Mo waved her hand and sighed and did not continue, but changed her mouth and said:
"Everything in the house is open, you can do whatever you like, and let your mother find someone to go over to find out. If the girl is willing, it's okay to spend a little more money, your father can get it... just a little."

Grandma Mo ordered the table and told Mo Bei solemnly: "Old Mo's family are all well-behaved people. If you marry, you must treat them well. If you don't divorce your wife, there is such a thing as divorce. That child has a hard life. If you really treat him Marry her home, that is her second life, Ah Bei, what you are thinking about is how to make up for her previous suffering."

What he said, as if Si Ningning would soon be Mo Bei's daughter-in-law, Mo Bei blushed for a while, and under the watchful eyes of Grandma Mo, he swore an oath, but after he finished speaking, he languished again:
"But, grandma, I like her, but this matter..."

Mo Bei was in a dilemma, he had already fallen into a misunderstanding of his feelings, and he was reluctant to give up, but if he continued, he would not be able to do things that would damage other people's feelings, he struggled and struggled, and in the end it was himself who suffered.

Mo Bei spoke out of order, and at the end, the child prodigy and young genius, who had always been widely praised by the compound, was at a loss like a lost child at this moment.

Grandma Mo has a general understanding of the situation. Mo Bei is her grandson, and she naturally understands his temper, so she knows Mo Bei's dilemma.

After a brief silence, Grandma Mo sighed softly and spoke slowly:
"Abei, you already have the answer in your heart."

"Then what are you worried about?"

Grandma Mo gently picked up Mo Bei's hand on her lap, squeezed it first, then patted it lightly, and said with a charitable smile: "If you think about it, do it and implement it. The important thing is not the result, but the process. Whether this life is long or short, don’t let yourself leave regrets.”

A few short sentences have already shown Grandma Mo's attitude.

Even so, Mo Bei still asked: "Grandma, can I?"

"Yes, why not?" Grandma Mo asked cheerfully, and immediately said: "When you choose this path, it means that you have subtly accepted the difficulties you are about to face. There is one road, and other difficulties will be encountered on other roads, and it will not be smooth sailing to the end."

Since this is the case, what are you worrying about?

It's better to perfect yourself and do what you want.

Mo Bei did have his own ideas, but he had no one to support him, so he would inevitably fall into hesitation inadvertently. Now after Grandma Mo's advice, his heart suddenly opened up.

"Grandma, thank you, I know what to do."

"Good boy." Grandma Mo praised with a smile, saying "Our family Ah Bei has really grown up", and then sent Mo Bei to see if he was okay for dinner.

After Mo Bei left, the main house became cold. Grandma Mo closed the doors and windows, bowed her body and tossed under the old wardrobe for a long time. With the faint light of the kerosene lamp, she squinted her eyes and found a pair of jars from a pile of tattered jars. A crescent-shaped pair of cards and an old, yellowed piece of vellum.

Back at the kang table again, Grandma Mo sat quietly for a while, after worrying, she decided to make a fortune for her descendants.

Grandma Mo knows Mo Bei's birthday horoscope, and because Si Ningning is a close neighbor, Grandma Mo also knows a general idea, and clears the sundries on the kang table. After tossing it three times to see the yin and yang, and finally calculating according to the hexagrams presented by the sign, it is calculated against the locked traditional Chinese form on the paper.

It was supposed to be a close relationship between the two, but when analyzing Si Ningning's horoscope, Grandma Mo's withered fingers finally stopped on a word on the paper:
--tender.

Grandma Mo was stunned.

The thin rope is only picked at the thinnest place, and the fate is only for the poor...

That child has a hard life, his mother died early when he was born, and he is not cherished by his father...

Grandma Mo originally thought that if the child was destined to be with her grandson, and her grandson would like it, and a happy event would happen in the future, he would take it back to her home and treat it with care, but Si Ningning didn't count on it. It is the fate of premature death.

An early death, before the age of 20 can be called an early death, counting the zodiac signs, Si Ningning is now, only two years away from the age of 20...

two years...

Grandma Mo loosened her sparsely furrowed eyebrows, and put away the things with a sigh.

There is no need to count any more.

Grandma Mo had something on her mind, so she finished dinner absent-mindedly, and while her daughter-in-law was soaking her feet with water before going to bed, she beckoned Mo Bei to her, and whispered:

"Grandma is getting old, and there is still no fixed number of years to live. Grandma will tell you something, remember it."

Mo Bei wanted to interrupt Grandma Mo, but it was obvious that her expression was not as good as in the evening. After thinking about it, it was best to nod obediently and listen silently.

Grandma Mo said: "You are the only boy in the Mo family, you have to remember that you will be the leader of the Mo family in the future, and your two sisters are brothers, and when you become rich, you will also be the sisters' support , is their confidence, do you understand?"

Mo Bei replied in a deep voice, "Grandma, I know all of this."

(End of this chapter)