Sinan saw the attitudes of her grandmother and aunt, but she did not feel sad.
The tears I shed when I was young, when I look back upon my growth, are nothing more than this.
They didn't like her, so she didn't need to flatter them. Everyone had their own way of living, and she was being polite by not punishing those who had ill intentions towards her.
The two cousins are both around 20 years old. One is still in college, while the other dropped out early to get married and have children.
Seeing that Si Nan's two large suitcases were bulging, the second cousin, who was holding the child, opened one of the suitcases. Inside were many well-packaged new clothes, high-end cosmetics, gift packs of snacks that the children liked, local specialties of Xingcheng, and two bottles of Guoguang liquor that Liu Dalin liked.
The tags on the new clothes were all over a thousand yuan, and the high-end cosmetics were all in sets, which looked very expensive. Even the two bottles of liquor cost over two thousand yuan each. The second cousin was shocked. Liu Xinling was shocked: "Cousin, did you win the lottery?"
After Si Nan was admitted to university, he seldom returned to the Liu family. Every time he came back, he would buy gifts for his family. In the past, he bought ordinary and affordable things, but this time he bought so many things, and they were all expensive. Not only was Liu Xinling shocked, but her aunt and grandmother also looked a little relaxed. The whole family looked at Si Nan, trying to read something from her face.
Si Nan smiled and said, "I don't have the good luck to win the lottery. The reason why I bought so many things is because I heard a piece of news and decided to come back to see you..."
She told Liu Dalin about her dreams and doomsday prophecies, emphasizing that the weather had continued to warm up in recent days and that temperatures in places like South Africa had reached new highs, so she asked Liu Dalin to stock up more supplies.
"Child, such a big thing happened to you, why didn't you call your uncle and let him take care of you in the hospital?" Liu Dalin was shocked. He pulled her to sit on a chair next to the dining table, looked her up and down with red eyes and said, "Are you okay now? It's all your uncle's fault. I feel so sorry for your mother. If your uncle had always protected you, you wouldn't..."
The aunt next to him suddenly turned cold, and Si Nan interrupted Liu Dalin hurriedly: "Uncle, don't say that. You and aunt raised me, and I have no time to thank you. How can I call you and worry about you when I got a minor injury? Don't worry, I'm fine. It's just that the dreams I had during my hospitalization were too real and too scary. I checked a lot of posts on the Internet and found that many people had the same dream as me recently. I didn't think it was a good sign, so I quit my job, bought some things and came back to see you and aunt. You must take my words to heart and stock up more supplies at home. If you don't want to stock up, you can come with me to Xingcheng and live with me. If there is a natural disaster or man-made disaster, I can take care of you..."
She talked a lot, and her aunt and two cousins looked at her strangely. Liu Dalin didn't know how much he heard. He just said that he would not go to Xingcheng. He could not leave the land where his generations had lived. He would pay attention to what she said and wanted to invite her to dinner. She politely refused, quietly stuffed 10,000 yuan into Liu Dalin's pocket, turned around and carried the suitcase to her aunt's house.
After she left, my aunt rolled her eyes at her back: "What's wrong with you? What do you mean by natural disasters and doomsday? Did she watch too many science fiction movies? I was wondering why she suddenly came back. Did someone knock her brain out and make her a fool? She's just like her mother, talking nonsense all day long. It makes me angry just to see her."
Liu Dalin was furious when he heard this: "Can't you say less? Don't think I don't know how you treated Xiaonan all those years! If it weren't for our two daughters, I would have called the police to arrest you and divorced you if you had abused Xiaonan behind my back, not giving her food, clothes, or medical care. Now Xiaonan has grown up, and she came back with good intentions to remind us. You don't believe it, but I do! If you dare to say bad things about Xiaonan and my sister again, I'll beat you to death!"
"Okay, Liu Dalin, you've wanted to divorce me for a long time, right? You still want to fight me? Come on, I'm not afraid of you! Do you think I was willing to abuse her? If you were incompetent, you couldn't get the money back from working on the construction site, your family was so poor, and that damn girl was always sick and causing trouble, why would I ignore her? Since you want to divorce, let's divorce, and divide the things in the house into two parts. I won't live with her anymore!"
There was a crackling sound of something being thrown behind him, but Sinan had already walked far away and could no longer hear it.
She took a taxi in town and arrived at her aunt's house. Her aunt's family was weeding in the mountains. When her aunt Si Yufang heard the news that she was back from her neighbor, she hurried home. Her thin, wrinkled, dark face was dripping with big beads of sweat. When she saw Si Nan, she rushed over and hugged her happily: "Daya, why are you back? Have you eaten? Auntie will cook for you. The chicks that brooded at home in the spring are half grown up. The chickens we raised last year can be killed. Auntie will kill a big rooster for you to replenish your body."
Daya was Si Nan's nickname when she was a child. Since she was born, Si Yufang has always loved her as her own daughter. More than 20 years have passed and she has not changed her mind. Every time Si Nan comes back, she will kill the local chicken that the family is reluctant to eat to nourish Si Nan's body, just to let Si Nan feel the warmth of home.
Si Nan's eyes turned red unconsciously. She glanced at her uncle and three cousins coming down the mountain not far away, and swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth. She first handed the gift box in her hand to Si Yufang. When her uncle was checking the contents of the box, she pulled Si Yufang to the corner of the yard and repeated to her what she had said to Liu Dalin before, asking Si Yufang to go to Xingcheng to live with her.
As expected, Si Yufang refused, with the same reason as Liu Dalin. She would not leave her family and the land on which she depended for survival. Even though Si Nan expressed that he could accept Si Yufang and her family to live together, she still refused firmly.
Si Nan had no choice but to remind Si Yufang to stock up more supplies. At the same time, he asked Si Yufang to help her buy some fertilized chicken, duck and goose eggs from nearby farmers, and some existing grain, fruit and vegetable seeds. The more the better. He gave Si Yufang 20,000 yuan in advance and asked her to buy as much as she could and to tell her if it was not enough.
She had a rather discordant meal at Si Yufang's house. Amid the disapproving looks from her uncle and his parents, she took out ten thousand yuan and gave it to Si Yufang, asking her to buy some delicious food and drinks. Then she turned around, picked up her shoulder bag, and left her aunt's house without looking back.
She took a car to the town, found a hotel to stay in, and wandered around the town for the next three days.
First, I went to the two few blacksmith shops in the town and bought a large number of farming tools, such as hoes, sickles, films, greenhouse tools, various plastic flower pots, wooden baskets, foam boxes, etc. for growing vegetables.
Then they moved between the market and major agricultural shops, buying large quantities of crop seeds, with a focus on stockpiling more crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, pumpkins, winter melons, cabbages, and radishes that are easy to grow and have high yields.
Sometimes she saw groups of furry chickens and ducklings at the market. Although she wanted to buy some, the space was a constant temperature place and any living thing put into it would die, so she gave up the idea of buying chickens and ducklings. She kept buying chicken, duck and goose eggs from farmers who came down from the mountains to sell them. Occasionally she would buy two old hens and a rooster, and also bought a pair of big geese with white feathers, and temporarily placed them at her uncle's house. When the time came, they would take a bus to Xingcheng together and raise the geese on the balcony.
Of course, she did not forget to buy some feed for chickens, ducks and fish and put it in the space. After the natural disaster, it was difficult for people to survive with a full stomach. If she wanted to keep these living things for a long time, she had to prepare enough food for them. Otherwise, when the supplies were scarce, where would she find food to feed them?
After buying these, she went around several nearby towns and bought whatever was suitable. Finally, she set her eyes on several diesel generators and two hydroelectric wind turbines. She paid a large sum of money and asked the boss to help her buy a large amount of diesel. After putting all the things into the space, she came to a small town specializing in greenhouse cultivation and bought a large amount of fertile soil in pockets, common and easy-to-use fertilizers, and some insect extermination and catching tools from them. There was less than 20,000 yuan left in the card.
It is indeed easier to spend money than to make money. Si Nan looked at the little remaining balance and decided to go back. He went to Si Yufang's house. In front of her yard, there were piles of corn, wheat, rice, beans, sweet potatoes, potatoes, various fruit and vegetable seeds packed as feed, baskets of chicken, duck and goose eggs, even fertilized quail eggs, pigeon eggs, and various small bags of mushrooms...
The completeness of the items made Si Nan seriously suspect that her aunt had put money into them. She asked Si Yufang how much money she had spent, but she refused to tell her. She even refused to take the money when Si Nan pretended to call a truck to transport the things, and she even rushed to pay the fare.
Si Nan knew that Si Yufang was genuinely kind to him, and since he couldn't refuse anymore, he didn't reject her kindness. He sat in the passenger seat and saw through the rearview mirror that Si Yufang's figure had become a little hunched over due to years of hard work. She was standing next to the farmyard, waving at him and watching her leave, just like a mother who is reluctant to see her child go. Tears welled up in his eyes and he leaned on the car seat and cried silently.
After the car drove to the town, the same scene was played out at her uncle's house. In addition to the chickens and geese she had bought, her uncle also bought her half a pork, dozens of kilograms of beef and mutton, basket after basket of local eggs, and all kinds of pickled vegetables and bacon from Zizhu Town, piled up into a small mountain for her to take away.
She didn't want them, and her uncle was very angry. He spoke to her earnestly for a long time, and his words showed that he treated her as his own daughter. If she refused to take these things, it would disappoint his uncle.
Si Nan had no choice but to accept those things. Before leaving, she repeatedly told her uncle, just like she had told Si Yufang, that if a natural disaster occurred and they could no longer survive, they must go to Xingcheng to find her, and she would do her best to protect them. Her uncle smiled and agreed, standing by the roadside watching her leave.
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