Finally, Si Ze asked someone to fill a sack with snacks brought from the city, and he carried the sack himself. Yan Mo helped the old man and personally sent him back home.

The old man's house was an old bungalow made of stone bricks and black tiles. As soon as she entered the door, the biting cold wind came in from the cracks in the bricks on all sides. Yan Mo could not feel much difference from the open air environment outside. In this day and age, living in such a room showed that the old man's life was so difficult. She also understood instantly why Si Ze would give nearly ten thousand yuan for just a few bags of grapefruit.

The old lady in the house saw her husband coming back and hurried to greet him. When she saw Si Ze behind Geshanpi, she said in surprise:

"Heizi, Heizi's wife, why are you here?" As he said that, he immediately welcomed Yan Mo and the others into the house.

"Grandma, it's you!" Yan Mo said happily. She remembered the old lady. When she came here for the first time, she was reading the deeds on the stone tablet of Size in the square. The old lady was among the villagers. She would occasionally look at her and smile. That simple and unpretentious smile made her remember her.

Unexpectedly, Heizi's wife still remembered her. The old lady scratched her head and immediately took a few steps forward to pick up Yan Mo. However, she saw her black hands and wiped them on her clothes, but she did not intend to touch Yan Mo.

Under the enthusiastic guidance of Grandma Pi, Yan Mo and Si Ze entered the Pi family's home across the mountain.

"Heizi, you guys sit here first. I'll go make breakfast." Grandma Pi was overjoyed and ran outside to the open-air stove.

Yan Mo stopped her and said with a smile: "We came here after breakfast."

Grandma Pi glanced at Geshanpi, who patted his belly with a smile and said, "I've had enough to eat and drink at the Si family too."

"You old bastard." Grandma Pi muttered in dissatisfaction.

Geshanpi smiled innocently, then reached out to wipe off the black dust on his wife's face and coaxed her, "I'll bring you some next time."

"I don't want you to wear this. I'm afraid you'll dirty the Si family's land." Grandma Pi patted Geshanpi's hand. As if remembering something, she walked to the shabby cabinet, opened the drawer, took out a brand new 500 yuan in cash, and handed it to Geshanpi:

"I found this today when I was passing by a field under the big pomelo tree at the entrance of the village. I don't know who dropped it."

Five hundred yuan is not a small amount of money in the village. Grandma Pi did not dare to handle it on her own and planned to give it to her husband.

Hearing this, Si Ze looked at Yan Mo. Could it be that the little girl had lost it? Yesterday they went to pick grapefruits, and today they found the money. He couldn't believe such a coincidence.

Yan Mo blinked and silently admitted that she had put the five hundred yuan there on purpose. She thought it was taken away by someone, but unexpectedly it was Grandma Pi who picked it up.

Si Ze was not the only one who thought so. Ge Shanpi had obviously thought of it as well. He immediately looked at Si Ze who was sitting on the stool and asked, "Heizi, did you put this money there?"

He had already taken so much money from Heizi, so he couldn't accept the five hundred yuan. He immediately limped towards Si Ze. Fortunately, Yan Mo and Si Ze were prepared. They quickly jumped up and retreated to the door.

"Grandpa Pi, we have something else to do later, so we'll leave first. I'll have someone move the pomelo this afternoon."

Before he finished speaking, Si Ze and Yan Mo had already left the Pi family across the mountain. Without stopping, they walked back the way they came.

Yan Mo looked at the old man who was gradually getting farther away behind him and said with emotion:

"It's quite pitiful, but it's also a happy and perfect thing for two old people to depend on each other."

"Are you jealous?" Si Ze put his arm around her shoulders and continued strolling in the fields.

"A little bit!" Yan Mo kicked the falling stone away and said lightly.

Perhaps she is more traditional. Compared with the elderly life in many nursing homes nowadays, she yearns for this kind of free and easy life, staying with her loved ones in the countryside and completing the last journey of her life.

But the prerequisite is to leave enough money for her retirement so that she can live the life she dreams of. Otherwise, she will end up like Grandma Pi and others, who are still struggling for their basic food and clothing even when they are old.

This may be one of the reasons why grandpa and others are reluctant to return to the city!

Sudden.

Yan Mo stared at Si Ze with shining eyes.

Feeling her burning gaze, Si Ze turned around and asked:

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Si Ze, where is the back mountain?" Yan Mo answered the question irrelevantly.

Si Ze understood. She must have remembered what they had said last night. He pointed to a hill opposite them that wasn't too high.

Then, he spread his hands and said helplessly:

"I have to go back and get the telescope. I left in a hurry and forgot to bring it with me this morning."

"Hehe." Yan Mo smiled playfully, reached into his coat pocket and took out a military green monocular telescope, which was the one on the table in Si Ze's room.

She held the telescope in front of him to show off and said happily, "Look, I brought it. Let's go! Let's go to the mountain." As she said that, she couldn't wait to run towards the hillside he had just pointed to.

"Slow down." Si Ze quickly caught up with her, grabbed her hand, and forcibly pulled her to slow down, reminding her seriously:

"The road is uneven, please walk slowly."

"Well, do you think we can see my grandpa's house from here?" Yan Mo asked.

Because of what happened in City B, her father has been in a bad mood recently. Her sister Yan Jing has not returned from Jinzhou. This year is the first year that she is coming to the Si family again. Her mother said that she would bring Tangtang and her father to her grandfather's countryside to celebrate the New Year. She doesn't know if they have come.

Sixiang Village is not far from Changmen Village, only about an hour's journey, and she quickened her pace with anticipation.

"I miss grandpa." Si Ze said affirmatively, following her steadily and protecting her.

Yan Mo nodded. Who wouldn’t miss their family on New Year’s Eve?

Si Ze nodded, but didn't say anything more. He had a plan in mind.

More than twenty minutes later.

They finally climbed all the way from the corner of the mountain to the top.

Looking at the endless horizon, Yan Mo patted his shoulder excitedly, signaling him to put her down:

"Quick, put me down."

Just now, when they reached the corner of the mountain, he was afraid that she was too tired, so he insisted on carrying her on his back. If she didn't let him carry her, he wouldn't let her come up. She had no choice but to let him carry her to the top of the mountain.

Si Ze squatted down as instructed and put his wife down.

"Ah." Yan Mo shouted happily when his feet touched the ground.

She took out the binoculars from her pocket, went to the top of the mountain, and impatiently raised them to her eye sockets, but it was still pitch black.

"Si Ze? Why can't I see anything?" Yan Mo turned around and looked at Si Ze without taking off the telescope, very puzzled.

Si Ze laughed and shook his head, then took the telescope from her hand: "You're too impatient. Didn't you notice the glass blocking the lens?" As he spoke, he raised his hand to remove the glass blocking the lens. Then, after he finished, he reached out from behind and personally raised the telescope to her eyes, whispering in her ear: "I'll teach you how to use it."