psychochemist

Chapter 82 Extra Story - Grandpa's Treasure
mysterious cabinet

When I was very young, I started to think about what is precious and what is value.From the day I started thinking, the long road of treasure hunting began.

"Grandpa, where is your most precious thing XZ?"

When I was in elementary school, I had to take a lunch break at my grandfather's house every day. Before going to bed, I loved to ask this question.

Grandpa squinted his eyes and smiled every time, pointing to the highest cabinet. "Grandpa's most valuable thing is there." Then, grandpa would tell a story about "Li Ji Kills the Snake", and then put me to sleep.

I don't know how many lunch breaks have been like this.I even think that my grandfather will only tell the story "Li Ji Kills the Snake" to lull the children to sleep.

After waking up, I also forgot about my grandpa's treasure, because every 20 minutes before class, the whole living area would play rapid music.Most of my lunch breaks are woken up.

However, my grandfather's "treasure" made me full of curiosity. I wondered if there were family heirlooms handed down from ancient times, or many, many jewels, just like the treasures in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.When I was young, I combined cartoons to make up the pictures every day.

Countless times, I wanted to open that cabinet and see what was inside.

However, even if I add a stool to my height, I can't touch the cabinet.Hey, short children will suffer a lot when it comes to exploring the world.

normal box
Later, I grew up slowly, and after entering junior high school, I stopped taking lunch breaks at my grandfather's house at noon.

The environment of junior high school is much more "society" than that of elementary school, and the people here are not as pure as those in elementary school.Kindness, diligence, and integrity are no longer the only criteria for measuring a student's excellence.

Here is full of competition, achievements and interests are the most important.In the original words of our class teacher: "When you think that a diamond is more precious than a beautiful glass ball, you have grown up sadly."

As for Grandpa's treasure, I don't care anymore.

But not long after, the truth of this treasure seemed to be easily known to me.

Before the Chinese New Year of that year, my grandfather bought a new cabinet, and we juniors and adults were responsible for moving the cabinet and moving the things in it.

Standing on the stool at that time, I could barely open the cabinet that I couldn't control when I was a child. I went in and touched it with my hands.

That treasure turned out to be two boxes.

Mysterious treasure of childhood was just cracked, I wasn't excited at all, I didn't even bother to open the box.

Because at that time, I already knew that the most precious thing in the world is - money!

Besides passbooks and bank cards, what else can these two boxes hold?

Don't think about those useless things, hurry up and do two more questions, the most important thing is to meet the senior high school entrance examination.

Treasure Truth

However, the story is not over yet. I remember that one day in 2018, I came to my grandfather’s house again to help him pack his things.

Because my grandfather is moving to a new house this year, all useful things in the old house will be moved there.

At this time, my grandfather was already old, and he could only walk slowly.But grandpa kept holding the two metal boxes in his hands.

I said: "Grandpa, let me hold it for you, and you are in charge of directing us, don't take things."

Grandpa handed me the box and told me repeatedly: "Hold it carefully, this is my most precious thing."

At this time, the box was not the same as before. There was an extra white note on it, "Commemorative badge of ***".

ah? !It turns out that grandpa's treasure is not money!
Maybe my grandfather was afraid that things would be messed up when he moved, so he specially pasted a note on this ordinary box.

Childhood memories and junior high school imaginations, these things flashed through my mind again.

It seems that the plot of a shocking case many years ago has been reversed and turned into an unjust, false and wrongly decided case.

This? !what exactly is it?My childhood curiosity came to my mind again.

I couldn't wait to open the box.

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It turns out that Grandpa's treasure turned out to be the National Medal of Honor that Grandpa, the old Red Army, has been awarded for decades!
These medals were neatly arranged by category, and each pile of medals was carefully wrapped in paper by my grandfather, and words were attached.

An overall content description is also included in the box.Write clearly the origin of each medal.

Grandpa regards these as the most precious things in his life, and the admiration in my heart arises spontaneously.

I seem to have returned to my grandfather's young world.

It was a time of suffering, there was not enough to eat, wars were raging, everything was devastated, and money was nothing at all.And the grandfather survived by relying on this "treasure", that is - love and hope.

The country has grown from being poor in the past to being rich today. Grandpa has always loved this country, shed blood for the country, regarded the affairs of the motherland as his life's work, and was proud of the motherland.Until his death, he was still concerned about the Sino-US trade war.Full of infinite vision for the future of the country.

Grandpa regards these medals not only as honors, but also as love and hope for the nation.

Those of us who have not experienced that era, it is difficult to realize how precious it is to maintain "love and hope" in that era.

On the other hand, we are ashamed of ourselves now. Now we blindly emphasize "innovation", think that foreign countries are superior, and think that old things must be revolutionized, but forget that the basis of innovation should be "inheritance".

Now we are slaves to money, and we kneel for so long that we forget how to stand up!
inherited
In 2019, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country awarded Grandpa the Republic Medal. Unfortunately, the recipient of the medal is no longer there.

On January 2019, 1, Grandpa left us forever, but Grandpa lit us up with the torch of his life.It ignited a fire in the hearts of everyone in our family.

Thanks to my grandfather for leaving us this treasure. Touching the marks of these years, I seem to feel the power from another parallel universe.

From that moment on, I was determined to pass on this spirit with what I had learned all my life, and to contribute to the development of the motherland with "love and hope". I think this is what he hopes to see.

And we will use our torches to light up the world.

In fact, every family has such a group of seniors. They are not good at talking, they are blind and deaf, and they may not even be alive, but they have seen all kinds of life, and they will accumulate the most precious things and put them in a "box". Waiting for the younger generations to "open" and pass it on.

Grandpa's Treasure

When I was young, I worked hard to find treasures, but the rare treasures hung on the high cabinet.

It's ridiculous and frivolous to get a brocade box by accident when I was young.

When you grow up, you will finally get the truth, but you will never sleep forever.

The younger generations need to forge ahead, love and hope for eternity.

———Psychochemist Yu Fan
　To Grandpa——Yu Yiji

　　
　
(End of this chapter)