"Look, he can only walk a few steps now, and has to sit in a wheelchair to go out in the sun. Although his mind is still clear, his health is actually very poor. He just endured it and didn't tell us."
Ye Xiaozhen: "Does Grandpa know?"
"Of course he doesn't know. The day is coming, he must have felt it. He insisted on going back, not only to go back to sweep the graves, but he didn't want to die here. His generation still has old-fashioned ideas, thinking that if you die, you don't want to die outside, you have to die in your own home, otherwise you won't be able to find your way home."
Ye Xiaozhen understood. No wonder the old man was so stubborn. He must go back.
"It just so happens that the house in our hometown has been renovated and there is a place to live. Grandpa hasn't visited it yet, so let him go back."
As she spoke, Xie Li shed tears of sadness.
Ye Xiaozhen understood and said, "Okay, then I'll go with you."
"Okay, Xiaozhen, don't tell Lin An about this for now. If Grandpa is really dying, it won't be too late to tell them."
"OK."
Grandpa has been ill for a long time. This day will come for everyone. There is nothing we can do about it.
After Xie Li agreed to Lin Xinghua's request, she went to the hospital to talk to his attending physician about her plan to return home, and the attending physician expressed her understanding.
The elderly generally hope to die at home, and would rather not be hospitalized if they are really dying.
Xie Li left only after prescribing some medicine for her and telling her various precautions.
Afterwards, 늀놆 bought tickets, arranged his work, and then took Lin Xinghua away.
On the day of departure, Xie Linan drove to see me off and took me to the train station.
"You must go back?"
"So what? You've already bought the tickets, are you still here for fun?"
Xie Linan looked at Ye Xiaozhen.
Ye Xiaozhen said, "I just happened to have something to do so I went back. I'll be with my sister so that the two of us can take care of grandpa. Don't worry, we're both here, you don't have to worry."
"Hey! Okay, okay, go early and come back early, don't waste too much time."
"knew."
The trains at that time were very slow and it would take three days to get there.
They bought the best sleeper berth tickets, the kind with four rooms, and the three of them booked all four seats.
Fortunately, there are still several days before Qingming Festival, so it is not very crowded.
Soft sleepers are more expensive, and there aren't many of them, so it would be a bit too much for three people to occupy four places.
Ye Xiaozhen and Xie Li arranged for him to see the scenery, sleep, eat and drink along the way, so he didn't suffer much.
When seeing the beautiful scenery, Lin Xinghua said happily: "This trip is worth it. You can't see this mountain by plane."
"Look at it, it's so beautiful."
"Oh, this mountain is high, higher than the clouds."
"Not a loss, this trip is not a loss."
Seeing his happy look, the two of them felt relieved.
It seems that all the previous concerns were unnecessary.
Three days later, they came from the station.
The old man is taking medicine and is in stable condition.
One of them was pushing a box while the other was pushing a wheelchair. They soon met Wang Dakun who came to pick them up in the square.
"Sister-in-law, sister, here you are."
His car was parked on the side of the road.
After waving to them, he hurried towards them and took the initiative to take over the task of pushing the wheelchair.
"Grandpa Lin, are you feeling well?"
"Okay, 늀놆's legs aren't working properly again."
"It's normal to have problems at your age. You are lucky. There are not many people as old as you in our village."
"Haha, you are so lucky."
"By the way, Dakun, I heard that you guys are having a second child?"
"This... Oh, I didn't want to have a baby originally. My mother-in-law said that Yuanyuan and I were both only children. If something happened to the child, both families would be ruined. We went to the family planning office every day to make trouble. Later, when my parents knew about our situation, they said that we did meet the criteria for having a second child and gave us a birth permit. My parents couldn't ask for that, but since we were pregnant, of course we had to have the baby."
"Have you seen the child yet? Is the child a boy or a girl?"
"I have a daughter. Now I have both a son and a daughter."
Wang Dakun carried him into the car, put the wheelchair and their luggage into the trunk, and then returned to the car.
"By the way, let's go back home directly?"
Ye Xiaozhen said: "Yes, go directly back to my hometown."
Xiaoxigou Village, I haven’t been back for a long time.
They still kept two firewood rooms in their old house, and the rest were demolished and rebuilt into a new house.
The decoration is very simple, just done casually, but the main thing is that the outside is made to look grand.
Ye Xiaozhen took a look and found that it fully fit the temperament of a nouveau riche in the 1990s.
This house looks like it was built to show off to the folks.
Ye Xiaozhen also repaired her own house. There was no other way. If the previous house was not repaired, it would have collapsed.
In fact, it didn't cost much money. Since there was no place to live anyway, I simply built the house with bricks and didn't even paint the walls.
Her purpose is to occupy the house site so that it can be demolished in the future.
There is another reason. When Ye Zhengguo goes to prison in the future, he will have a place to live.
What else can he do? He has no place to live, and the court will have to make trouble for him.
So Ye Xiaozhen considered it and decided to arrange for Ye Zhengguo to live in the village in the future and give him basic living expenses every month. She couldn't give him anything else.
Seeing them come back, Granny Liu next door was very happy.
She was in poor health and used a crutch. She jokingly said that she had become a cripple.
"I used to laugh at you for being a beggar, but now I'm the one who's begged."
Lin Xinghua, who was sitting in a wheelchair, said: "That's better than me. I can hardly stand up now."
"What's wrong with you?"
Lin Xinghua said: "I have had problems with my legs, but now I am old and can't use them anymore."
"Alas! This is useless when you are old."
"You don't? Think about it, I was working a few years ago, but now I can only sit in a wheelchair. By the way, what's wrong with your leg?"
"I fell. Oops, I accidentally fell last year and that's what happened."
"Not getting better?"
"I'm healed now, but I'm still not very agile. The doctor said I need to be more careful with my old bones. So my grandson made me a cane so I can walk more steadily on three legs."
The two old men chatted for a long time, talking about what had happened to each of them in the past two years and what had happened in the past.
They have been neighbors for several years.
Mrs. Liu married into the family when she was in her twenties, so they had been neighbors for more than fifty years.
Xie Li and Ye Xiaozhen went to clean the room and cook.
I haven’t used firewood for a long time, and it almost didn’t light.
Xie Li said with a smile, "I never thought that there would come a day when I couldn't even light a fire properly. I'm afraid I won't be able to use this stove in a few years."
She lit the fire while Ye Xiaozhen cooked, and soon three dishes and a soup were ready.
After resting at home for a day, Lin Xinghua went to visit the grave.
Xie Li said, "The Qingming Festival is still two days away. Why are you in such a hurry? Let's go in two days."
Lin Xinghua said: "You can send me to the grave, and then you can go back. You don't have to watch over me."
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