A good time for farming through the ages

Chapter 184 [184] Foreign Return (3000)

As an outsider, some words may not be appropriate to say, but in this case, she feels it is very necessary.

"Grandma, after all, you and grandpa are old, and it is only natural that there should be someone by your side. Otherwise, if something happens, what do you think will happen?"

Grandma Hou looked at Grandpa Hou with tears in her eyes: "It's all my fault. If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't be dying, and no one would come back to see you."

Maybe it's because he escaped from death just now, the old man obviously looked down on everything, when Grandma Hou said that, he was very upset.

"How can I blame you? For them, you have never had children in your life. Isn't that enough? They are not filial, but they use you as an excuse. Hmph, I am blind and can't see it? People have a good life abroad. The moon in foreign countries is round, if we don’t come back, we will die together.”

It turned out that Grandma Hou and Grandpa Hou were a half-way couple. His ex-wife died early and left when the two children were in junior high school. At that time, Grandpa Hou had to work and take care of the two children. I met the widow Grandma Hou. Her ex-husband died of illness. The two of them have no children. If they marry Grandpa Hou, they will be mothers. It would be fine if the children are younger, but the older one will go to junior high school, and the younger one will go to elementary school soon. Graduation, I have already remembered things, will they miss Grandma Hou?

It's hard to be a stepmother, Grandma Hou thinks that Grandpa Hou is knowledgeable and a good person, after thinking about it, she finally married.

After marriage, Grandpa Hou treated her very well, but the two children were obviously unanimous to the outside world. No matter how kind Grandma Hou treated them, they still felt that she was trying to curry favor with them.

In order to let the two children accept her, Grandma Hou gave up having her own child. Unexpectedly, after she was admitted to university, all of them went abroad, far away from this home, and rarely came back during the holidays, and never went home. After sending money, there may be a letter in a year or so, but it is not for Grandma Hou, even if it is for the old man, there are only a few perfunctory words.

In fact, Grandpa Hou had already given up. This time, he saw everything even more clearly, and his heart was bleeding when he thought that his own son and daughter were not as good as an outsider.

It is said that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. I didn't understand it before, and it becomes more precious when something happens.

After Zhuo Lin knew the life experience of the two old people, she devoted herself to them. She lived at home for at least five days a week, just to take care of them. The school knew about her affairs and took good care of her. .

Zhuo Lin never took money from the two old people for hospitalization money, nutritional supplements, and daily food and drink. Even if they gave her, she never took it.

In Zhuo Lin's words, since she had the fate to meet them, and she has the ability to contribute money and efforts, there is no need to let herself regret it.

The neighbors in the neighborhood also saw Zhuo Lin's actions, and came over to help and chatter from time to time, and finally took care of the old couple to recover.

Basically, as long as Zhuo Lin is at home, she has never bought fruits and vegetables, and they are all produced by her own seeds. For this reason, she nailed a wooden box and put some soil and water in it. There is no food when I go home. Take seeds to stimulate the birth. If it is fast, the green vegetables will come out in half an hour. If it is slow, it will be a big watermelon in an hour or two. The speed increases with age and the improvement of birthing technology, and it has become more and more proficient.

The only trouble is that if the baby is born frequently, the physical strength will drop a lot, and the last time she saved two old people, it took a whole week to get over a little bit.

Grandpa and Grandma Hou kept Zhuo Lin's actions in their hearts. Although they didn't say anything, they had actually made a decision in their hearts, and even went to the neighborhood committee to talk about it more than once.

In the blink of an eye, it was January 1971. After the exams, it was winter vacation. Considering the inconvenience of the two elderly people at home, Zhuo Lin planned to prepare some New Year’s goods for them in advance, such as expensive bacon, cured fish, and enema, tofu She bought a millstone by herself and prepared it for them in the yard. Because it was cold, these things could be put away. She also bought lard for them, refined the oil, and prepared rice, noodles, and coarse grains. It took about 20 yuan to get their New Year's goods ready.

The two old people were so moved, they took her hand and wiped away tears, they were really speechless, just looking at her made me feel sad.

She patted their hands, "I will rush here from home on the sixth day of the first lunar month, come here early, I can still do business for a few days, earn some living expenses, don't be reluctant to eat the things I prepared for you, don't let go If it’s broken, if it’s not enough, or if it’s broken before the New Year’s Eve, eat it up quickly and order it yourself. The money I gave you (20 yuan) is for you for the New Year’s Eve. Don’t be reluctant to spend it. I’m still young. You can still do business, and you can earn it back after a year, so you can spend it hard!"

They are old, their ears are a little hard of hearing, and they need to shout loudly. Now they light up the stove during the day, and turn off the stove at night after they get under the covers.

Zhuo Lin bought a thermos for them, and it worked a little bit, hey, that's what it is when they get older, and they are disliked everywhere, so I can only say that it's too normal.

It was a holiday on January 1, and on the 18th, when Tao Yi rushed over from Changsha, Zhuo Lin was a little helpless to see his dusty appearance.

"I can go back by myself, what are you doing here again?"

"You don't know how many people there are during the Spring Festival travel season. I'm still worried about whether you can squeeze into the train with your thin arms and legs. Okay, wait for me for another day. I have to go to my uncle's house to see my grandpa. Grandma, let's go back tomorrow night in a sleeper."

Zhuo Lin stared straight at the moment: "Sleeper? Can you still get a ticket for the sleeper?"

Tao Yi winked at her, "I'll try it, it should be similar."

Based on the connections of his uncles, they should be about the same, right?

Tao Yi rested at home for a while, and after waking up, he rode a tricycle with the fruits and vegetables prepared by Zhuo Lin. Of course, these are fruits that can be bought in the vegetable market, such as apples, pears, sugar cane, oranges, etc. , but they don't know that they were all born by Zhuo Lin. Compared with the wilted fruits outside, her fruits are juicy, not to mention how sweet they are.

Speaking of apples, it is really hard to rush. It took more than four hours in one afternoon to grow an apple tree. Although it is difficult, it bears a lot of fruit, and the trunk is not so thick, but very thin, and all the nutrients are on the branches. , these Zhuo Lin can control during the spawning process, so there is no need to worry about what the spawned apple tree trunks can do, those are not things, and it saves chopping firewood, wouldn't the ground pot in the yard come in handy?

Zhuo Lin washed the clothes of the old couple at home. At this time, tap water has been installed in the capital, but a pressurized well was built in the yard of the old man a few years ago. No matter what kind of water can be used, it is nothing more than tap water. You need to pay, according to the population. One dime per person per month.

When Tao Yi was there, he made a toilet for them. It was really modeled after modern times, but it was made of plastic and turned into a wooden frame. Just pour the toilet twice, which saves the number of times to go to the toilet. After all, it is a pain to go to the toilet every time you are old.

The brothers and sisters try their best to help the old man, when grandpa and grandma Hou don't say how good they are when they go out?As for the children from abroad, probably they didn't take it to heart at all?
Asked if he would come back this year, Grandpa Hou folded his hands behind his back and snorted coldly: "If I love you, I won't come back. If I don't come back, I'll save time on serving them. If I really want to come back, I have to spend money to entertain them. It's been 20 years." Well, they have sons and daughters over there, what are we worrying about?"

But unexpectedly, at noon on the day Zhuo Lin and Tao Yi left, several rickshaws pulled over from the house, and there were quite a few men and women getting off the cars. The old neighbors took a closer look and shouted.

"Old monkey, come out and see who is back in your family."

Zhuo Lin was cooking in the yard at the time, and her grandparents helped to choose vegetables and peel the garlic, because she was going to pack up and leave after the meal, so she cooked several meat dishes, but at this time, men and women came in five or seven There are eight of them. If you look carefully, there is also a foreigner. From the perspective of Zhuo Lin's later generations, they are all very fashionable.

In winter, two women were wearing cashmere coats, chiffon skirts, high heels, and scarves. One of the women was Chinese, and the other was a foreigner. The two men who came were also a A Chinese and a foreigner, they gave birth to four children, all of whom were of mixed race, who were very beautiful and chattered about something.

When grandpa looked up and saw the person coming, he first wanted to stand up excitedly, and waited for grandma to help him up before he thought of something and snorted coldly.

"Who is this, don't go to the wrong door, how many years have passed, you still remember me as an old man!"

Only then did the son and daughter stop introducing the other half, and hurried over, shouting at the old man enthusiastically.

"Oh dad, look, haven't we all come back here? Look, this is your grandson and granddaughter, and that is your grandson and grandson."

When the middle-aged man wearing glasses called his children over to say hello to his grandparents, he opened his mouth in English, which made the old man very angry.

"Okay, okay, what are you shouting, I can't understand the shouting, so why do you come back? Don't look for good Chinese people, find me some foreign things, what's the matter, Huaguo is so Big, can't accommodate you? You two are so heartless that you can even abandon your own mother tongue!"

"Dad, what are you talking about? We have taught, how could we not teach the children their mother tongue? Isn't it impossible to speak? You four, what are you doing in a daze? Hurry up and call grandparents, grandpa and grandma in Chinese .”

The children obeyed and yelled in unfluent Chinese. After Zhuo Lin finished cooking, she brought the dishes into the house. She just glanced at the people standing in the yard without saying anything. What, did not take the initiative to come forward to say hello.

(End of this chapter)