Grandma Rong drank the sweet honey water while listening to her talk, a loving smile on her face that was old but still graceful:
"I know, I know, I'm almost becoming a nagging little kid. Don't be cold, don't be cold. I won't let myself get sick and personally send my sweet baby to marry.
I’ve suffered so much in the first half of my life, and now that I’m old, I haven’t had a chance to enjoy the good life. I also have to think about the good life that your old grandfather didn’t have…” As she spoke, Rong Qing clearly saw the sadness and endless longing that suddenly appeared in her grandmother’s eyes.
She didn't care about the many taboos and quickly went up to hug her grandmother's arms to comfort her: "Grandma, don't be sad, you still have me, and maybe grandpa will come back one day."
Grandma Rong sighed deeply:
"Time flies. I haven't seen the old man for 25 years. How could he be so cruel and leave me here alone?
I'm just waiting for him. If he comes back one day, I'll give him a good beating and let him know who's in charge of this family, humph!"
The last one was hummed with a bit of arrogance, which made Rong Qing feel a little amused and helpless. Grandma was really cute. She had heard the stories of grandma and grandpa too many times since she was a child.
It was also because she had heard too many beautiful and brilliant love stories that she had imagined her love to be extremely beautiful from the very beginning. In the end, when the layers of illusion peeled off and the most authentic things were revealed, her previous life ended miserably and she ruined everything, including her young life!
In fact, now that I have returned to the starting point, I have discovered that different things cannot be mechanically applied from the very beginning, because the magnetic field they generate and occur varies from person to person.
Just like grandpa and grandma, the love between them began with the companionship of childhood sweethearts, fermented in the innocent throbbing of youth, and experienced years of sharing joys and sorrows...
It is the combination of all these factors that creates such a unique beauty and fragrance. Even after a long time, the sweetness that remains in the heart will only become more mellow, because they have been running in both directions from the beginning to the end.
As for me, does it count as unrequited love? It should count, right? Or is it the kind of love that, knowing it's impossible, still relies on sheer courage to charge forward, using my frail little body and the flickering light of my body to melt the glaciers of ten thousand years?
Rong Qing couldn't help but let out a bitter smile. How ironic and how lacking in self-awareness.
He shook his head, clearing away all the chaotic thoughts and unnecessary junk from his mind, and then took his grandmother back to her room. He watched her put on her slippers and get on the kang, and then covered her with a blanket, and said softly:
"Grandma, I believe Grandpa will come home one day. I will wait for him to come home with you."
Grandma's voice sounded a little hoarse:
"Humph, it's up to him to come back or not. I've been here all these years, and I've raised my children to be successful. This damn old man is just waiting to come back and reap the fruits of his labor. It's really a bargain for him."
Rong Qing chuckled and echoed her grandmother:
"Yeah, yeah, yes, yes, grandma is the greatest and most amazing. If grandpa comes back, he will definitely admire grandma to death. So wait for grandpa to come back and repay you with his hard work!"
Grandma Rong snorted proudly, "He's really lucky. I'm the only one who has to bear all the hardship!"
Rong Qing hugged her grandmother with heartache. She had suffered so much and was also very great. In those special times when she could not even get enough food to eat, she was able to raise her seven children to learn to read and write and all of them became successful. This was something that not many people could do.
No matter how long she lives, her grandmother will always be the woman she admires most.
I could also sense my grandmother's low mood at the moment, so I quickly changed the subject with a smile: "Grandma, you should get some sleep first. I'm going to run a couple of laps. After dinner, I'll go to the mountain to see if there are any rabbits in the traps I set. I really want to eat the braised rabbit meat you made."
"Hey kid, it's so cold outside! Why are you thinking of going for a run? If you sweat, the cold wind will make your healthy body sick again. Hurry up and lie down on the kang for a while. After dinner, I'll go and heat up the kang in your room. It's so cold!"
"No need to burn it."
"Why not? Even if you have a stove in your room, the bed will still be cold!"
It’s not that Rong Qing doesn’t want to sleep on the kang, but she only has one month left to stay with her grandmother. Originally, after her rebirth, she planned to take her grandmother to Kyoto no matter what, but she also knew that waiting for grandpa to come home was her grandmother’s biggest obsession!
Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been so many years since my uncles and aunts repeatedly persuaded my grandmother to go to their home to retire, but she refused without hesitation, and every time she said the same thing:
"If I leave, once your father comes back, we won't even have a home. That won't do. I have to help him guard this house and wait for the old man to come back and deal with him properly!"
There's no way. The old lady looks gentle and kind, but if you really want to get serious about something, not to mention ten oxen, even a hundred oxen can't pull it.
My children are extremely filial, so they have no choice but to go along with whatever I say. We have finally agreed that no matter how busy they are, they have to come back once in a while.
In addition to missing my mom, I was also worried that she would suffer without them around, so every time I came back, it was really time to move:
All kinds of delicious food, drinks, and clothes, popular and fashionable things in the city, in short, just like their own mother treats them, all the good things are taken away.
This also resulted in the family having to fill three storage rooms when one was not enough. Every time grandma accused them of being wasteful, her mouth would almost rise to the sky.
Because of her grandmother, Rong Qing also became a beneficiary. Don’t look at her being raised in the countryside, but in fact her living standard is much better than those kids in the city.
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