Xia Shige walked out of the room and saw Xia Guocheng putting boxes together. Xia Huiyin and Sun Yuegui picked all the vegetables in the yard, because they couldn't take them away, they planned to give them to other villagers in the village.
Xia Shige was not idle either. She went out and went to Grandma Liu's house next door.
Anyuan Village is large, but there are not many residents near the Xia family. Most of the villagers live a little further away. In Xia Shige's memory, the mudslide in Anyuan Mountain in his previous life destroyed three families at the foot of the mountain.
In addition to Xia Shige's family, there are also neighbors Grandma Liu's family and Uncle Qian's family.
My neighbor Uncle Qian's family stopped farming a few years ago, and all of them went to work in the city. A few years ago, they saved enough money to buy a house in the city, and then lived in the city for a long time, so no one lived in his house.
In Grandma Liu's house, she lives alone.
Xia Shige pushed open the door of Grandma Liu's house and saw her grandmother helping Grandma Liu pack the vegetables.
When Grandma Liu saw Xia Shige, she quickly pulled her into the house.
"Your grandmother told me yesterday that there was going to be a mudslide on the mountain, which kept me awake all night. No wonder my eyelids have been twitching and I've been feeling anxious for no reason. It turns out this natural disaster is coming."
Xia Shige's eyelids jumped when she heard the word "natural disaster". But she quickly calmed down and comforted Grandma Liu, "Grandma Liu, please follow us without worry. We will live in the city for a while first."
"Alas, I have been alone these years. I originally planned to live a few more years of peace and then die here, but I didn't expect to encounter a mudslide. When the time comes, the house will be destroyed, and I won't even have a place to die, and I will also drag down your family." Grandma Liu sighed.
"Stop talking about this. We two sisters are together, so we at least have companionship. Otherwise, I'd be the only one left, and I wouldn't know how I'd survive." Grandma's eyes also turned red.
Although they have been neighbors for decades, Grandma Liu is different from my grandmother. My grandmother is from the countryside and her ancestors have lived here for generations; Grandma Liu is from the city and was a university professor when she was young. In that era, those who could become professors at a young age were all gifted children.
Unfortunately, Grandma Liu met the wrong person. Her husband abandoned him and his children a few years ago and eloped with his mistress with all the family savings, completely ignoring his sick and bedridden parents and his infant son.
Grandma Liu taught at school during the day and washed clothes for others at night to earn money, while taking care of her sick parents-in-law and raising her son.
Even the funeral of her parents-in-law a hundred years later was handled by Grandma Liu herself, and her husband did not show up at all.
Later, Grandma Liu helped her son get into college with great difficulty. She thought she could live an easier life from then on. Unexpectedly, one day, her son suddenly took Grandma Liu's husband back home.
After Grandma Liu's husband eloped with his mistress, they lived a happy life at first. But later, they spent all the money they brought from home, and the mistress ran away.
Grandma Liu's husband didn't dare go home either. He could only do odd jobs and use the money he earned to buy alcohol. He drank himself unconscious every day and later became paralyzed in bed.
After Grandma Liu's husband became paralyzed and had no one to take care of him, the hospital contacted Grandma Liu's son.
Grandma Liu's son felt very distressed to see his father like this, and decided to be more filial to his father. He took his old father home and asked Grandma Liu to take care of him.
Grandma Liu refused and directly kicked the father and son out of the house.
Grandma Liu's son went to find a family mediation program team. He hoped that the program team could persuade Grandma Liu and her husband to reconcile.
Grandma Liu was very angry and refused the interview with the program team, but her son took the program team directly to Grandma Liu's school.
The school considered the impact and feared that public opinion would ferment, so it terminated the employment relationship with Grandma Liu in advance. However, the school leaders considered Grandma Liu's contribution to the school over the years and gave her a sum of compensation privately.
Grandma Liu originally wanted to use the compensation money to retire early, but the program crew edited out the whole story and portrayed Grandma Liu as a vicious wife who abandoned her paralyzed husband.
All of a sudden, colleagues and friends who didn't know the truth came to blame Grandma Liu.
Unable to bear the annoyance, Grandma Liu simply cut off contact with everyone, avoided familiar people, and moved alone to Anyuan Village, where she had been when she was doing research. She rented the abandoned house next to Xia Shige's house from the village for a long time, and asked the villagers to repair it, and became a neighbor of Xia Shige's grandmother.
Xia Shige's grandfather died early, and her grandmother raised several children alone. She understood how difficult it was for Grandma Liu and often counseled her.
Grandma Liu also often helps Xia Shige's grandmother.
The two supported each other and spent many years like this.
When Xia Shige's adoptive parents just divorced, her adoptive mother was burdened with a lot of debts and had no time to take care of Xia Shige, so she left her at her grandmother's house. When her grandmother went to work in the fields, Grandma Liu held Xia Shige in her arms and taught her English word by word.
In Xia Shige's heart, Grandma Liu is his own relative.
"Grandma Liu, just rest assured and come with us. When I was a child, you and my grandmother took care of me. Now it's my turn to take care of you. I will take you wherever I go. You and my grandmother will keep me company."
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