Chapter 7878
Before the Chinese New Year, the ferry at Shuibu Town was bustling with boats every day.
Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang are not going back to Jiangjia Village today. They are planning to return to Wucheng tonight and spend the night on the small bed in the shop. They will go back to Shuibu Town to sell for two days tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. This year's New Year's Eve is on January 31st. He plans to go back in the evening of the 30th, just in time to make it in time for the ancestor worship ceremony on the morning of the 31st New Year's Eve.
Jiang Ning did not force them.
If Grandpa Jiang hadn't been so eager to go home, Jiang Ning would have wanted to sell it with them.
Grandpa Jiang was wearing his wolfskin Lei Feng hat, a black warm down jacket that Jiang Ning had given him, a sweater and his own wolfskin vest underneath, thick woolen trousers, and woolen knee pads that his granddaughter had found for him. On his feet were high-top black leather shoes with fur.
He still had a hunched back, his head slightly stretched forward, and walked forward slowly, like an old turtle.
After nearly half a year of taking medicine and improving his diet, his originally skinny face has gained some flesh and his complexion has improved a lot.
Jiang Ning wanted to help him, but he always pushed her away impatiently: "I don't need your help. It's not like I can't walk. What do you need my help for?"
He stubbornly put his hands behind his back and walked through the crowded streets, showing off his new clothes and new shoes as if he was strolling, until he got on the boat.
Many people on the boat who knew Grandpa Jiang greeted him when they saw him: "Uncle, are you out shopping for New Year goods? What did you buy?"
Grandpa Jiang listened to these familiar local accents and replied with a smile: "I didn't buy anything."
Seeing that Grandpa Jiang was indeed empty-handed, he looked at his clothes and said, "Grandpa has become rich. He is wearing new clothes. They must have been bought by his children, right?"
When talking about his new clothes, Grandpa Jiang's smile deepened. He showed his new clothes to the people on the boat: "My eldest granddaughter bought them. My clothes, pants, and shoes were all bought by my eldest granddaughter!"
They all praised Jiang Ning: "Your granddaughter is so filial!"
Grandpa Jiang was praised so much that he was so happy that his teeth were showing.
Everyone on the boat was from the Linhe Brigade, which was composed of six natural villages, among which Xujia Village and Jiangjia Village were the largest. The boat they were on now belonged to Xujia Village.
They didn't know much about Jiangjia Village. They just thought that the girl in front of them had gone out to work and had just returned today.
This is very common here. The factory holidays are not as long as students' winter and summer vacations. Generally, there are only five or six days of holidays. Coming back on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month is considered early. There are also many people who rush back on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month or even on New Year's Eve. They have to go back to work after the third day of the New Year.
At this time, there were many young people on the boat who had returned from working in other places, carrying large and small bags of luggage and looking excitedly in the direction of their hometown. There were also many people on the boat who greeted these young people, asking them where they worked, how much they earned, and how the factory's performance was.
For the sake of face, young men and women all say that life outside is better, that work in a factory is better, and that the salary is higher.
When they asked about high salaries, these people would immediately ask where their homes were, whether they could bring their daughters and children with them for the New Year, etc. These young people who were naive could only laugh at the questions. Some of them even made promises, saying, "After the New Year, send your children to my village and I promise to take them out."
After hearing such promises, the parents felt uneasy. When they thought about what happened in Jiangjia Village this summer, they became worried again.
There was more than one boat going back to my hometown. One boat was full and there were no acquaintances from the same village who had made an appointment with me. When the time came, I set off.
When the boat was sailing, the river wind was very strong. People who brought their children to the street to buy New Year's goods stuffed their children into the black sail at the bow of the boat. Jiang Ning also stuffed Grandpa Jiang into the black sail, and sat on the edge of the boat outside the black sail, looking into the distance along the quiet lake.
The closer she got to Jiangjia Village, the more clearly she could feel her rejection and disgust towards this place. There had never been a moment like this that made her face her inner feelings. She wanted to escape.
In winter, the water level drops and the rocks appear. The same is true for the sandy river in front of their home. The drop in water level causes large areas of sand to appear on the river surface. Many people who want to take advantage of the winter farming off-season to mine sand come to the river beach with their loads on their shoulders to dig sand.
At this time, the river sand of Shahe has not yet been contracted by anyone. Anyone who wants to build a house can come to the river bank to dig sand.
The boats that could have docked near the ferry now had to moor at a deep-water dam far away from the two villages below their village.
Jiang Ning helped Grandpa Jiang get off the boat.
The wind from both sides of the river bank blew on Jiang Ning's face, like a knife cutting. It was not the knife cutting described by magic, but the real pain like a knife cutting and needle pricking caused by the cold winter wind. Even though she was wearing rabbit fur gloves, she still couldn't resist the biting cold wind.
The ground was frozen hard in the morning and evening, but because of the rare sunny day today, the ice on the ground melted, making the ground on the river bank extremely muddy and difficult to walk on. With one step, the soles of the shoes could sink five centimeters deep into the yellow mud, but the people carrying the loads still walked very steadily and quickly, and soon only their disappearing backs were left to everyone. Only Jiang Ning was left supporting Grandpa Jiang, and a group of young people who had returned from working outside the province, carrying large and small bags, wearing the decent clothes and shoes they had bought with great difficulty, walking hard on the muddy dirt road.
Some young people were reluctant to take off their new shoes, which they had bought just to look good during the Chinese New Year. So they simply took off their shoes, held them in their hands, and walked barefoot on the muddy road. When they reached the village entrance, they washed their feet in the ditch, wiped the water off their feet, put on new shoes and went home.
Grandpa Jiang also wanted to take off his shoes and go home barefoot, but Jiang Ning refused.
The mountains are wet, cold and dewy. He patrols the mountains as a forest ranger all year round. The dew on the bushes and grass will wet his trouser legs. When it is cloudy or rainy, his legs will ache excruciatingly.
In the past, he had no choice but to endure the pain alone. Now, his granddaughter has taken him to Shanghai for medical examinations and treatment several times, and now the pain has been slightly relieved.
How could Jiang Ning agree to such a harmful behavior? She threatened him directly, "Grandpa, if you take off your shoes and walk barefoot, I will do the same. I heard that if a girl's legs are frozen when she is young, she will not only have chronic cold legs, but also be unable to have children."
Grandpa Jiang, who was suffering from chronic rheumatoid arthritis, no longer dared to say that he wanted to take off his shoes and walk back barefoot. He felt sorry for the shoes on his feet all the way and said, "I should have worn rain boots when I came back."
After finally passing through Wangjia Village and Xujia Village, we finally arrived at Jiangjia Village.
As Grandpa Jiang looked at the familiar rural scenery, the smile on his face became more and more relaxed, and his steps became lighter and lighter.
Someone saw Grandpa Jiang on the road. Seeing that he had no patches on his clothes and that his clothes looked thick and warm, they greeted him unexpectedly: "Uncle, where are you coming from? You look like you are doing well."
He looked at Jiang Ning again with a look of surprise on his face: "Is this Ning Ning? How come you've grown so tall in half a year? Your family is full of tall people. If you grow any taller, you'll be able to catch up with your mother!"
Jiang Ning was still wearing the tattered clothes she had brought from home. She wore a sweater and a thin down jacket underneath her bulky cotton-padded jacket.
This cotton-padded jacket was worn by the eldest cousin and then the second cousin. The second cousin is older now and has reached the age to get married. She needs to wear nice clothes when doing so. After this jacket became old, she gave it to Jiang Ning.
The eldest and second cousins are both of adult height and body shape. Although Jiang Ning has grown taller in the past six months, she is still thin. Her originally baggy clothes became fitter after she wore a down jacket underneath. Her clothes looked fluffy and plump. Her legs were thin and long. From a distance, they looked like round apples with two thin chopsticks stuck underneath.
Only her face, which was exposed outside the scarf, was still small and pointed with a pointed chin. "Huh?" The aunt was surprised when she saw Jiang Ning's fair and tender face. "Ning Ning has grown well too?"
Jiang Ning, who was originally skinny, was not considered pretty in the eyes of the village aunts. In the eyes of the aunts, pretty girls all had round faces, or were slightly plump and easy to bear children. In the eyes of the aunts, girls with small faces and pointed chins were signs of poor development and bad luck. Jiang Ning ate braised pork every day for the past six months, and not only did she grow taller, but she also finally had some flesh on her face, making her look a bit like baby fat. In the eyes of the aunts, her pink and tender flesh had become pretty.
When they passed by Jiang Ning and looked at her, they couldn't help but say, "In the blink of an eye, Ning Ning has grown into a big girl. She's getting married now!"
Grandpa Jiang's face darkened at this sentence. He said, "Our Ningning is still young. She is still in high school. She still has two years to graduate and will go to college in the future!"
"What's the big deal? If you find someone you like on a blind date, you can get engaged first, and then get married after you graduate from high school!" The aunts said nonchalantly, "Good guys should be settled quickly, otherwise they will all be booked out, and the ones left will be ugly. Your Ningning is so handsome, and she's still a high school student, you have to pick a good one."
He has already started thinking about which nephew or nephew of the same age he has. If there is a suitable one, he should quickly ask someone to come to the Jiang family to propose marriage. Two years ago, the little girl of the Jiang family was still skinny and looked like a malnourished bean sprout. Only two years have passed, but she has grown into such a decent and beautiful lady. If he doesn't settle down quickly, by then, the Jiang family's door will be trampled down by someone else!
Grandpa Jiang could see what these people were thinking, so he said with a smile: "Ningning is a high school student. When she gets admitted to college, she will have to find someone who is in the same high school or college as her."
When the aunts heard Grandpa Jiang say this, they couldn't help but smirk. They thought of this old man, who knew how to find a girl in the town in the 1980s, and he actually found her. Now that his granddaughter is in high school, he must go to Wucheng to look for her, right?
For a moment, I was embarrassed and stopped thinking.
Jiangjia Village is a well-known large village in the vicinity. It is a very large village with four households living together. Not everyone knows that Grandpa Jiang went to Wucheng to accompany Jiang Ning to study. They only know that the old man is old and gave the job of forest ranger to his younger brother.
This frustrated the plans of many people who were eagerly waiting for Grandpa Jiang to retire and take over his job, and they couldn't help but feel bad when they spoke.
When she mentioned this to her neighbors, she couldn't help but grumble, "I saw that the girl in the big guy's family was very good-looking and a high school student. I wanted to find her a match for my nephew, but her grandfather had high standards and said he wanted to find her a high school or college student." She couldn't help but snort and said, "Life is thinner than paper, but ambition is higher than the sky. Which high school or college student would date a country girl?" Thinking of the Jiang family's gray old house that was shorter than the surrounding houses, she grumbled disdainfully, "Her family is so poor."
Most of those who live down below have built houses near the ditch because the land above has already been divided up. Most of them have two- or three-bedroom houses.
The person who was talking was from the second house. The neighbor was from the third house. He felt uncomfortable after hearing this and said, "What's wrong with a country girl? There are so many people in the city who marry country girls! Forget about anything else. The eldest uncle's daughter graduated from elementary school and married in the town. Ningning is a high school student at least. If she can get into college and get a stable job after graduation, how come she can't find someone from the city? Don't you see how good-looking his family members are? From the big guy, to Ailian, to the two sons of his brother's family, and then look at his grandchildren, which one is not handsome? Especially the Jiangsong brothers!"
Jiang Bai is okay, a boy with feminine looks, not the type that the village aunties admire. Jiang Song is different, he has completely inherited the advantages of his father and mother, he has thick eyebrows and big eyes, looks heroic, and is warm and generous. He greets everyone he meets enthusiastically. Which aunt in the village would not praise Jiang Song as a rare talent when seeing him?
Even his elementary school teacher commented on Jiang Song: "Your son will either become a dragon or a worm in the future."
To Jiang's father, that is the ironclad Jackie Chan.
The neighbor sneered, "Let's just talk about his brother's Guoan. If he wasn't born good-looking, would his wife like him, buy him a house, and ask his father-in-law to transfer him to Wucheng to be a teacher? Even though he doesn't come back very often, right? But as a state-owned teacher, you can get a guaranteed income regardless of drought or flood, and you have more than three months of winter and summer vacation a year. I don't know how happy he is!"
The aunt from the third room thought of what she had just seen. Jiang Ning's face was wrapped in a scarf but still couldn't hide her pretty face. She couldn't help but curl her lips and stopped talking.
Grandpa Jiang ignored the villagers' chatter and said to Jiang Ning, "Don't pay attention to them, okay? What do they know? They have been trapped in this small mountain village with only one acre of land for their entire lives. The farthest place they have seen is Shuibu Town. How can they know how big a big city is? What are the benefits of a big city?"
After going to Shanghai several times with Jiang Ning and staying in Wucheng for half a year, Grandpa Jiang became more and more determined to let his granddaughter study hard, go to university, fly out of this narrow mountain village, and take root in a big city.
He walked on the familiar country road with his back hunched and trembling, holding Jiang Ning's arm, and said, "Don't listen to those who tell you not to study. Just study hard. Studying is the only way to have a future."
He didn't know how to talk about big principles. He also knew that his own background, experiences, and knowledge limited his vision. What he taught his granddaughter was sometimes not necessarily right, so he was always silent and seldom spoke. He only knew one thing that was definitely right, and that was to read more. The big principles he didn't know, he would teach his granddaughter from the books.
Jiang Ning held his grandfather's hand and responded softly.
She was born in an environment where boys are favored over girls, and has parents who favor boys over girls, but she was lucky enough to meet a grandfather who treated her sincerely without any selfish motives.
Grandpa Jiang walked home step by step. The familiar accent of everyone in his hometown made him feel very close. After living in Wucheng for half a year, he was unfamiliar with the place. Although Grandpa Jiang opened the shop and sold things happily every day, only he knew what he felt in his heart.
He is old and can neither speak Mandarin nor Wucheng dialect, but only the Shuibuzhen dialect. He can understand Wucheng dialect, but people from Wucheng find it difficult to understand his Shuibuzhen dialect and they often talk at cross purposes. He always speaks happily and people listen happily too.
The closer he got to the village entrance, the bigger the smile on his face, and the lighter his steps became. He even wanted to shake off Jiang Ning's hand and walk to the old locust tree at the village entrance without her support.
There is no one under the old locust tree in winter. The old people gather at the door of the small shop at the entrance of the village to bask in the sun, with the radio beside them playing the storytelling they are used to listening to. The storyteller's words are wonderful and full of ups and downs, making people feel as if they are on the scene. Everyone can't help but immerse themselves in the storyteller's words.
They sat on a high platform and could see from afar Grandpa Jiang walking slowly towards them along the stone path beside a pond filled with withered lotus leaves from the winter.
One of the white-haired old men suddenly exclaimed, "Look, isn't that Lao Facai?"
"Is Lao Facai back?"
"Oh my! Old Fa Cai has really become rich. Look at his new clothes!" Some people have good eyesight and can see that there are no patches on Grandpa Jiang's clothes. However, some old people have poor eyesight and they squint, holding on to the stone railings to look out.
"Old Fortune! Old Fortune!"
There was also an old man who had a good relationship with Grandpa Jiang shouting loudly.
Grandpa Jiang also smiled brightly when he heard this: "What are you calling me for, old donkey?"
"Where have you been for the past six months? I haven't seen you for a long time. I thought you were gone!"
Grandpa Jiang laughed and cursed back: "I will not be gone even if you are gone, I am in good health!"
After they turned forty, many of their old friends who grew up with them passed away one after another.
In that era, it was really rare for a person to live to be seventy. Living to sixty was considered a long life.
"Oh my, Lao Facai is really rich, and he even wears leather shoes!"
As Grandpa Jiang approached, his clothes became more and more clearly revealed to these old guys.
"Wow! They are really leather shoes." They exclaimed and looked closely at Grandpa Jiang's shoes: "These shoes are not cheap, right?"
They all wore cotton shoes and cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles handmade by their wives and daughters. Not only were these shoes comfortable to wear, but their feet wouldn't melt like rubber shoes when they were placed in a fire barrel to warm them. The only problem was that they were not very waterproof.
At this moment, when I saw the big leather shoes on Grandpa Jiang's feet, I was really envious.
Grandpa Jiang sat proudly on the long bench, letting them look at his leather shoes.
Seeing the thick coat he was wearing, they all asked him, "You old man, you suddenly quit your job as a forest ranger. I don't know how many people envy you for such a good job, but you still quit. Where did you go to make a fortune?"
"Many people say that you are going out to beg for food. How can a beggar afford to wear such nice clothes and shoes? Take me with you, and I will go begging and picking up rags with you!" They said half-seriously and half-jokingly.
Grandpa Jiang hadn't even returned home when he was surrounded by his old friends. He sat on a bench, legs stretched out, his leather shoes lifted up, and boasted with a smile, "Isn't this the one my granddaughter won first prize for her composition? She bought this for me with her scholarship."
He smiled and sighed, "Why did she buy me clothes with her scholarship? And she even bought me such nice shoes! You don't know how warm these shoes are. They are all wool inside. My feet are burning when I wear them. Don't you think she is wasting money? It would be great if she could buy herself new clothes with the money. But she bought such nice clothes and shoes for me, an old man with one foot in the coffin. Isn't that a waste of money?"
Grandpa Jiang complained with a smile on his face.
The old men present were all jealous of what she said, and they wished Jiang Ning was their eldest granddaughter.
The owner of a small shop at the entrance of the village, who was the same age as Grandpa Jiang, said something fair: "What's the point of wasting money? Your granddaughter bought it for you, so just wear it well. It's what you deserve." The gray-haired old man said: "Look at you, you have been working for your children all your life, and you have raised your grandchildren. What's wrong with wearing their new clothes? Your granddaughter is showing filial piety to you, so just keep it!"
Grandpa Jiang laughed out loud, and his eyes became wet as he laughed.
Many of the elderly people present had tears in their eyes.
Among these elderly people, the ones who have the best life are Grandpa Jiang, who has a stable job and a salary, and the old man who runs a small shop at the entrance of the village. But even Grandpa Jiang, who has a salary, has been alone in the mountains all these years. Not to mention the lonely life in the mountains, even if he falls or gets hurt one day, no one will know. Isn't it sad?
These elderly people who have no income can only herd cattle and take care of children. At home, they can only live their lives according to their children's wishes. It's okay if they are filial, but if they are not, they will suffer even more.
Their shouting also alarmed Uncle Jiang and his wife Father Jiang who lived next door.
Seeing that Grandpa Jiang was finally willing to come back, Uncle Jiang held the bowl of noodles in one hand and said, "My dear old man, you are finally back. I don't know what you are doing at your age. You have been away for half a year. We are so worried that something happened to you!"
After Uncle Jiang and Father Jiang separated, Grandpa Jiang gave some to Father Jiang, and all the wages he earned from patrolling the mountains over the years were subsidized to his youngest son to pay off Father Jiang's debts. It is impossible to say that Uncle Jiang did not have some complaints or unhappiness in his heart. It was because his family had been living better and better over the years and had built two large buildings, while his younger brother's family was living worse and worse, and their house was still a gloomy, old house, and they owed a lot of debts to others. Only in recent years did Uncle Jiang's mood calm down.
He said he was so anxious that he almost died, but he didn't really go to look for Grandpa Jiang.
Over there, Jiang's father and mother came out of the house. Because Grandpa Jiang didn't give her this year's salary, Jiang's mother held it in her own hands. She was a little lukewarm to Grandpa Jiang, and didn't say to welcome him home to cook noodles or anything. Instead, she glanced at Jiang Ning who was standing next to Grandpa Jiang, and sneered: "You still remember to come back? There was no news for so long, I thought you died out there!"
She was talking about Jiang Ning, but her eyes were looking at Grandpa Jiang.
Father Jiang glared at Mother Jiang angrily: "What are you talking about on New Year's Day? Can't you say something nice?"
Jiang Ma's voice also got louder: "How can I say anything? Don't you see what they did? The old one quit her job and went to work for someone else without saying a word to me. She took the salary and disappeared for half a year. The young one lied to me that she was working in a kiln factory, but she didn't work a single day. I had to go look for her, but how could I find her? Now it's the New Year, and they all came back. What can I say? I can speak in a good tone, and I'm lucky I didn't beat them out!"
Grandpa Jiang has been earning a salary all his life, working diligently like a workhorse for his youngest son's family, and he also lives in a forest ranger's house on the mountain. How could he have ever endured such humiliation?
He didn't talk to his daughter-in-law either. He only said to Jiang's father, "Please clean up the small house downstairs for me. I will live in the small house with Ningning at night. I will leave after the New Year."
The small house he was talking about was the small mud house right opposite Uncle Jiang and Father Jiang's house. It used to be the house where my great-grandmother lived. After she passed away, this house became a storage room. After Father Jiang paid off his debts, he did not go out to work this year and raised two pigs at home. Now this small mud house has become a pigsty.
When Uncle Jiang heard this, he immediately said, "Aren't you trying to scare me, old man? Guoping's house is small and there's no room for you to live in. How can my son's house not have a place for you to live in?" He quickly called Aunt Jiang, "Guying, hurry up and make a room for our dad. If we let the old man live in a pigsty during the New Year, won't the villagers point at our spines and scold us?"
When he said this, he looked at Jiang's father with a smile in his eyes, which made Jiang's father blush and quickly stopped them and said, "We have a place to stay at home. Songzi and Baizi haven't come back yet. The rooms are empty. You don't have to live at eldest brother's house!" He scolded Jiang's mother angrily, "Why don't you clean up your room? Why are you talking about such a mess on New Year's Day? Where will Dad live if he doesn't live with us?"
"That's right." Uncle Jiang ate noodles and said sarcastically with a smile: "Dad has given all his salary over the years to you. Now that you come back for the New Year, you won't even have a bed to sleep in, right?"
He looked at Grandpa Jiang, and called Aunt Jiang: "Guiying, go see if my mom has finished eating the chicken legs. If she has, serve her another bowl!" He took a bite of the chicken bones in the bowl, smiled and said to Grandpa Jiang: "It's New Year's Day, and Guiying just stewed the chicken today. Dad hasn't eaten yet, right? Come, bring Ningning to my house to eat."
Uncle Jiang only said a few words to Grandpa Jiang, but if he really wanted to make Grandpa Jiang sleep in the pigsty and not give him food, even if he could do it, Uncle Jiang's wife could not do it.
Grandma Jiang has a bad relationship with her younger daughter-in-law, but she knows that she has offended her younger daughter-in-law. She knows that she has to rely on her eldest son and her eldest daughter-in-law with a kind personality for the rest of her life. She is only thinking about her eldest son's family. She raised the three grandsons of her eldest son by herself, and she treats them with all her heart.
When she was young, she had a strong personality and a bad temper, but when she got old, she converted to Christianity. Every weekend, she would make an appointment with other old ladies in the village who also believed in Christianity to take the ferry to the church in Tanshan to sing, learn to read, grow vegetables, and play mahjong. Now her temper has softened. The eldest daughter-in-law is not a mean person. She should not be too comfortable living in the eldest son's home.
On the other hand, the old man, after the property was divided among his youngest son's family, worked like a slave for them, but their life didn't seem to be very good.
As soon as she came out, she couldn't help but say to her daughter-in-law, "Ailian, you can't be so heartless. We agreed that I would give my share to the eldest brother's family, who would take care of his old age, and the old man would be given to Guoping, and you two would take care of his old age. All these years, the old man's salary has been used to subsidize you. Even your eldest brother didn't say anything, but you can't be so heartless. The old man just quit his job this year, and you're going to kick him out? In this cold winter, if you really let the old man sleep in the pigsty and freeze to death, don't even mention whether Guoping will forgive you, I won't forgive you either!"
After Grandma Jiang converted to Christianity, she began to speak slowly. She said to Father Jiang, "Guoping, your wife is not your biological daughter-in-law after all. You are his biological son. Since your father came back, why don't you ask him if he has eaten or bring him a sip of hot water?"
Dad Jiang was embarrassed and quickly helped Grandpa Jiang go home. Grandpa Jiang handed the bag in his hand to Grandma Jiang: "These are the shoes Xiaofeng made for you." Then he followed Dad Jiang back home.
The other elderly people present sighed: "It's really a shame for Lao Fa to get rich. Why did he quit his job when he had such a good job? He had a good job, a house to live in, money to earn, and he could be strong all his life without having to ask for help from others. Now he has to beg for food from his son and daughter-in-law."
The shop owner and Grandpa Jiang's lifelong friend, who knew more about the situation, said, "Don't you see how old Lao Fa Cai is? With his health, he might fall down on the mountain one day and die."
Everyone felt sad after hearing this.
Thinking of Grandpa Jiang's new cotton-padded clothes and nice shoes, the shop owner sighed, "I just hope Ningning is filial and can live up to Lao Facai for raising her for so many years."
I’m afraid that he will spend his whole life taking care of his children, and raising grandchildren when he’s old, but in the end none of his sons or daughters will want him, and his grandchildren will not be filial to him either. Then his life will be miserable.
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