chapter 173

What is it like to wait from dawn to dark day after day?
Grandma Huang sat by the pier and waited until the sky gradually darkened, but she still didn't see a familiar figure.

She thought, after so many years, would her husband change?The old man Wen's appearance has changed, his figure is not as strong as it was back then, but it seems to be a lot smaller, and the whole person is shrunk into a ball, looking very pitiful.

She wondered if her husband would lose his legs or arms like Wei Changgong!However, the family is better now, even if her husband becomes like this, it doesn't matter, as long as she comes back, the family can afford her.

In fact, her husband had a chance to run away at the beginning, but if her husband did, she would be driven to the village entrance and beaten to death because she did not guard the man who lived at home.

Many men ran away in the village, leaving many families with orphans and widows.

She and Jing are both lucky and unlucky.

Both her husband and old man Wen didn't run away. Even though they knelt down and begged for mercy at the end, they still didn't wait for the sympathy of these conscripts.She and Jing Shi chased all the way to the pier, their foreheads were broken, but they could only watch her husband being escorted away on the boat.

She also remembered her husband saying he would be back.

When Mrs. Jing passed away, she thought, she couldn't be like Mrs. Jing, otherwise what would happen if her husband couldn't find her when he came back?
He likes to eat sauerkraut soup made by himself...

Thinking of this, Grandma Huang cheered up again. She looked at the pier by the starlight, but there was no one she was waiting for among the crowd coming and going.

.........

Even in summer, the nights are still cold.

When Huang Gui came looking for her with a lantern, Grandma Huang's face was already a little ugly.

Today, Tang Mi sent some hot pot ingredients to the town, and happened to meet the Wei family who came to pick up Wei Chang's offering.

Wei Maimiao had a conversation with Tang Mi, introduced Wei Changgong and Tang Mi, and talked about Grandma Huang with Tang Mi.

After hearing this, Tang Mi took it to heart.

The Huang family actually knew that Grandma Huang was in the town, but they didn't think that Grandma Huang was on the pier. They thought that Grandma Huang was here to find her relative, Mrs. Huang, who lived in the town.

Fortunately, Tang Mi remembered, so she reminded Huang Gui to find Grandma Huang.

"Grandmother!" Huang Gui was shocked when she saw Grandma Huang like this, "Why are you still here? It's time to go home!"

Grandma Huang was supported by Huang Gui to stand up, but her body was trembling. She suddenly said, "Gui'er!"

Huang Gui immediately said "Hmm", "Grandma, what's wrong? Is there something wrong?"

"I seem to..." Her voice was a little tired, "I don't seem to be able to hold on anymore!"

Grandma Huang fainted after she finished speaking.

Huang Gui was also taken aback, and his expression changed immediately.

Fortunately, Hu Sanmu's shop is not far from here. After a while, Hu Sanmu led several people and Huang Gui carried Grandma Huang to the backyard of Tang's shop.

There are several vacant rooms in the backyard of this hot pot restaurant, most of which were used by the Tang family when they came to town. Now Huang Gui is a little embarrassed, "Miss, I am causing you trouble!"

"Is there any trouble or no trouble?" Tang Mi waved to Huang Gui, and asked Hu Sanmu to invite the doctor.

It was already dark at this time, and there would be a curfew in a while. If it was nothing serious, people were not allowed to walk at night.

At this time, Hu Sanmu also understood this truth, he turned around and walked out.

Huang Gui was a little embarrassed. In his memory, his grandmother had always been a cheerful person. Even though people in the village always whispered that she was an old widow, she didn't seem to care at all.Father and mother always told Huang Gui that his grandmother had suffered a lot and asked him to be filial to her grandmother.Over the years, Huang Gui has always remembered this.

Back then, it was his grandmother who spoke, so he could read and know some words, and now he has the opportunity to help the Tang family with things, calculate accounts and so on.

She was obviously such a good grandmother, but at this moment, she was lying on the bed dying as if all her breath had been sucked out.

In fact, when old man Wen came back a few days ago, the family members were a little happy, thinking that if old man Wen could come back, maybe his grandfather could come back as well.

However, when they calmed down, they understood that not everyone was as lucky as old man Wen.

Even if he went out from the same village, even if old man Wen and grandfather were neighbors, old man Wen also said that once his grandfather went out, he would not go in the same direction as him.

I heard that the army of my grandfather was completely wiped out.

In fact, old man Wen's team was the same. He had been a slave for many years before he was rescued.

However, how many people in this world are as lucky as Old Man Wen?
The Huang family figured it out, so they stopped waiting deliberately.

It would be best if grandfather could come back, but if he couldn't... there was no other way.

But grandma remembers... grandma remembers grandpa's name.

There is a tradition in Xiahe Village, which says that if a person is wandering outside, and someone at home always misses him and often reads his name, then he will come back.

Therefore, even though Huang Gui's father had never met the rumored father since he was a child, Grandma Huang still took the trouble to tell Huang Gui's father about that person.

Thinking of this, Huang Gui couldn't help crying.

His grandmother, who had been strong all her life, actually had the most despair and helplessness in her heart.

The cooks in the shop had already gone home to rest. Tang Mi went to the kitchen to boil some hot water and some meat porridge, hoping to fill Grandma Huang's stomach when she got up.

It's a pity that when the doctor came, he just shook his head and said, "Everyone is like this when they are old!"

Huang Gui couldn't help crying when he heard that.

Who doesn't know that the old man will leave one day?A person's life is long and short.

Tang Mi didn't know how to comfort Huang Gui, so he could only leave the decoction and walked to the yard alone.

The sky tonight is very dark, only dotted with a few twinkling stars. Even though the yard is lit with windproof lamps, it is still dark and frightening.

Tang Mi raised her head and glanced at Grandma Huang in the room, but her mind wandered away.

She knows that this is not the modern age, and she cannot control her own life or death.

People like Grandma Huang must be full of regrets when they leave. Grandma Huang waited all her life, but she didn't find anyone she wanted to wait for.

What about her?

If she wants to leave one day, do you have any regrets?
Tang Mi thought, yes!

She suddenly missed Gu Liu very much, wanted to talk to him, wanted to hear Gu Liu talk about how she and him were like in his dream?

She also wanted to ask Gu Liu how much she knew about her. If Gu Liu knew everything about her, then she could also tell Gu Liu the story of her hometown.

Tonight, she really missed this person.

(End of this chapter)

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