rebirth, romance, space

Chapter 16 Grandma's House (Transition)
The rolling hills enclose the whole town like a big circle, the blue sky and white clouds, the cool summer breeze blowing past, completely free from the haze caused by the pollution of cement, brick factories, pharmaceutical factories, etc. in later generations.The various small rivers that converge from the villages and become branches in the town are distributed in various places in the town like a net.

"Afterlife?" I grabbed a word and thought in a daze, what is afterlife?Where is the town shrouded in gray in my mind?I only went to the town twice, both to my grandma's house during the Chinese New Year. "Mom, what is the afterlife?"

"Huh?" My mother was stunned for a moment when she heard me talking about the afterlife. "Smile, why do you ask such a question?"

"I was looking at the scenery just now, but a strange place appeared in my head." I put my hand on my forehead, trying to recall the scene that appeared in my head just now.

"Where is it?" Mom asked me step by step, her voice lowered, for fear that I would not be able to remember it loudly.

"That place is a bit like my grandmother's house, but it's very different. There are many tall buildings, and the fields are gone. The sky is gray, and there are places called cement factories, brick factories, and pharmaceutical factories. They all emit smoke. It grows very tall and big, as high as a mountain." I closed my eyes and thought about it bit by bit. "There is a voice in my heart telling me that I am the afterlife, mother, what is the afterlife?"

"Smile, tell mom, how long have you been like this?" Mom has been trained to be emotional by my self-taught reading and writing in the past two years, even in the face of landslides and landslides.From time to time, I suddenly burst out a sentence, which is a kind of guidance.Just like she asked herself and her husband to take grandma for a check-up just now, it must be something wrong with grandma.And what she told the whole family before going to bed last night, my uncle should not marry a wife from another province, and my sister-in-law is not suitable to marry into Chencun.Although everyone has a tacit understanding not to mention Xiaoxiao's strangeness, what she said last night happened to be that a matchmaker found her mother-in-law through the sixth wife in the village to introduce her to her uncle and sister-in-law.And the candidates I introduced happened to be from other provinces and Chencun.

These can all be interpreted as the strangeness of Xiaoxiao, but the future generations that Xiaoxiao is talking about now, I don’t know if it will look like the town will look like after many years of development.However, if Xiaoxiao really predicted it, what should I and my husband do?
The two experts in the village usually advocate caring for and protecting the environment from time to time. Not to mention other people, even they feel it is ridiculous.I take it for granted that everything around me should be like this. Everyone wants to live more comfortably, and if I let myself live in a mud house for the rest of my life, I definitely don’t want to.Money earned is spent.

But now, if future generations are really like Xiaoxiao said, do I really like living in a living environment where even the air is polluted?It seems that what those two experts preached is very necessary.

"What?" I looked up at my mother in confusion, but because I was too short, I could only see her beautifully curved chin.

"Smile, it's still the same sentence, except for mom, dad and grandma, even grandma can't say it, understand?" Mom was thinking turbulently in her heart, and when she heard my question, she had to repeat the sentence again. I have said countless times to my husband and other family members. "Xiaoxiao want to know the reason?"

"I'm very surprised that strange things pop up in my head from time to time, but as my grandmother said, although I don't understand now, I will understand when I grow up." I played with my mother's shirt and said casually.

"Husband, what do you think?" Mom asked Dad, who was concentrating on driving the motorcycle, and she knew Dad had heard.

"Just like Xiaoxiao said, she will understand when she grows up." Dad looked back at me in my mother's arms and said cheerfully.He doesn't ask his daughter to have any abilities, he just hopes that I will grow up safely and happily, and it is better to make money by myself.The ideas that come up to her from time to time can be very helpful, such as raising pigs, making tofu, growing soybeans, and opening a fruit farm. Every step is reminded by her casual words.There is no need to worry about the sales of the fruit farm. After all, brother-in-law Lian Qi is engaged in public transportation. As long as he helps to transport it out of the town, he can sell it to Guangcheng.The quality is also guaranteed, and I have applied for a patent. Others have to buy it from me if they want to grow it. This is also a way to make money.As for the environment of future generations, it is not something that one can worry about, nor can one change.That's what the country should consider. It's better to support the family well.

As soon as my mother heard what my father had said, she naturally understood what my father was thinking after thinking about it.After all, the emotional understanding is getting better and better.

"Smile." Grandma and grandpa took two cousins ​​and stood outside the door waiting for the three of us. As soon as they saw Dad's car, they immediately came to meet him.

"Hello, grandma." I was taken from my mother by my grandma, and I yelled sweetly, and then greeted my grandpa and two cousins ​​on my grandma's shoulder, "Grandpa, how are you? Come again with a smile. Big cousin, little cousin, are you naughty?"

"Come in." Grandpa frowned and looked at my bean sprouts, thinking how did my daughter and son-in-law bring them?Xiaoxiao seems to be thinner than during the Chinese New Year.

"Xiaoxiao, are you afraid of grandpa?" Grandma asked me after seeing grandpa enter the yard, bumping me with her hand.

"Don't be afraid, grandpa hurts and smiles." I replied loudly.The grandfather who heard my answer in the yard couldn't help but smile. It's better to smile. Don't be afraid of yourself. Those two grandsons are not even as good as smiling.

Dad parked the motorcycle and untied the red, white and blue plastic bags tied to the small iron frame behind the car.Mom took out a dollar from her pocket to buy snacks for the two cousins.

Grandma's house also has a large yard surrounded by bricks, which is full of grafted mango trees given by my father. The house is a courtyard house that was demolished and rebuilt with bricks. The outer wall is white, and the tiles are black. Quaint and beautiful.The eldest uncle and aunt live in the big room on the right, and the younger uncle, aunt, and grandfather live in the small room on the left. Both rooms have a kitchen, shower room and dining room; there is a patio in the middle, and a living room above the patio.My aunt was instigated by the aunts next door to separate from my grandparents and move out. I don't know what my mother and my aunt said, but they didn't separate.Later, during the Chinese New Year, my father borrowed money to demolish the mud house and build a brick house for my grandmother's house.

(End of this chapter)