It was winter, nearing the end of the year, and both Chen Chunhua and Lin Guoqing were very busy, both busy collecting debts and paying salaries.
Tomorrow Lin Guoqing will take Lin Shuchao to Yi County to collect debts. Right now, everyone is busy preparing things in the room.
Liang Shengdi sat on the sofa and stared at the TV blankly. The TV was showing her favorite drama, Xianglin Sao, but she didn't seem to be in the mood today. She just sat there stupidly.
The sofa they bought was the most common model, with a three-person sofa in the middle, a single sofa on each side, and a large coffee table in the middle. Liang Shengdi was currently sitting on the single sofa on the left.
Lin Shumei had just been studying hard at school for so long, and she still had two days to finish her homework! She decided to give herself a break tonight.
She brought a plate of washed water chestnuts and placed it on the coffee table. Then, despite having so many empty seats, she refused to sit and insisted on squeezing onto the single sofa with Liang Shengdi.
"Oh! Can't you just sit on the big sofa?! There's so much space over there!"
"I won't!" Lin Shumei, who was almost 15 years old, shamelessly insisted on squeezing in with Liang Shengdi. "It's so cold, of course it's warmer to squeeze together!"
But the single sofa just couldn't accommodate two people! Liang Shengdi felt like she was being squeezed to death, and finally had no choice but to drag her granddaughter to the big sofa.
Even if we sit close together on the big sofa, it doesn't feel that crowded.
"You are my ancestor!" Liang Shengdi said angrily.
Lin Shumei, with a playful smile, handed a water chestnut to her pacifier. "Nanny, have a try. Mom and I saw someone selling them on the way back, so we bought a bag. They're quite sweet. Would you like to try some?"
Liang Shengdi looked at the water chestnuts, a little speechless. "When they were everywhere in the fields before, I didn't see you guys enjoying eating them much. Now that we don't farm anymore, you have to spend money to buy them."
Lin Shumei stuffed the water chestnut into her hand, then picked one for herself and started to chew the skin.
"Ah? Really? Did we grow this at home before?"
Liang Shengdi glanced at her unhappily and said, "You are destined to be a young lady. If you are too young, no one would want you to work in the fields. When you grow up, you will go to school and your parents will be able to make money, so they won't have to farm anymore."
Growing water chestnuts is too hard.
They are grown in rice paddies and harvested when the temperature is lowest in the year. Sometimes the paddies are frozen, but at this time, you have to dig up the mud and pick out the water chestnuts one by one.
Liang Shengdi still remembers that when she was a child, she would get frostbite on her hands, face and feet every time she finished digging water chestnuts.
As he got older, Lin Guoqing always bought all kinds of ointments for his family, including clam oil, stick oil, frostbite ointment, etc. Every time he came back from the fields, he would tell them to apply the oil over and over again, so that they didn't get frostbite for a long time.
But picking water chestnuts is still very hard work. Who would be willing to eat water chestnuts picked with so much effort?
Liang Shengdi was willing to do so, but she wanted to eat meat more at that time, so she usually picked two to try, and then cleaned the rest and took them to Heji to sell.
Later, as conditions improved, they stopped growing water chestnuts. Later, they even rented out their fields...
Liang Shengdi first gnawed off the skin of the water chestnut, leaving a whole white flesh, and then threw the whole thing into her mouth, and the flesh instantly filled her entire mouth.
"It's sweet. Things that you can eat without working for them are sweeter."
After Liang Shengdi finished one, she started to eat the second one without Lin Shumei's help. The two of them sat on the sofa, chatting and finishing the water chestnuts on the plate.
"Grandma, you're in a bad mood today?" Lin Shumei felt that she had eaten too much and the skin was a little stuck in her teeth.
Liang Shengdi snorted, "No."
"Then why do you have no appetite for dinner? You only ate one and a half bowls, but you used to eat at least two bowls."
Liang Shengdi: "...the food is not tasty."
"You can finish all the monastic meals my father made. There's also braised pork on the table today! Isn't the soup and rice delicious?"
Liang Shengdi: ...She regretted it. Is there any leftover braised pork and rice?
"It must be gone." Lin Shumei spread her hands. "Just now I saw Third Brother pour the last bit of rice in the pot into the plate of braised pork, and then he mixed it up and ate it."
"! That good-for-nothing!" Liang Shengdi hated him!
"So, if you're in a bad mood, you can do something else, but don't treat your stomach badly." Lin Shumei looked at her grandmother with a smile, "Then grandma, why can't you eat today?"
Liang Shengdi: ...Humph!
"Is your mother still sending you to school the day after tomorrow?"
"Ah? What else?" Lin Shumei tilted her head, suddenly thinking of something, "Grandma, do you want to take me there too?"
"What am I going to do?" Liang Shengdi said angrily. "I didn't lie to you. The gasoline smell in that car is really strong. It's better to take a boat."
Lin Shumei nodded, "That's right, I think so too."
Liang Shengdi was delighted. "You think so too? How about I row the boat and take you there?"
Lin Shumei looked at her grandmother with some embarrassment, "But, grandmother, it's really a bit cold on the boat."
Liang Shengdi's excitement instantly faded, "Then what the hell are you talking about!"
Lin Shumei wiped the water chestnut residue off her hands, put her arm around her breast, and pressed her whole body against her.
"Grandma, are you unhappy because you can't send me off?"
"You really know how to flatter yourself..."
"That has to be something that can stick to my face..."
"cheeky!"
“Lululu!”
…
Lin Shumei was rubbing her breasts outside, while Chen Chunhua poked her head out to look into the living room, then retracted it.
"Hey, have you bought the train tickets to Shanghai and to Jiang Province at the end of the year?"
"I bought it a long time ago. If I don't buy it now, it will be gone. What's wrong?"
"Did you buy it for Mom?"
"Of course! How could we forget her?" Lin Guoqing said with a smile, "But if we all go out and leave her alone at home, she'll probably scold us for days."
Chen Chunhua breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."
Others may not be able to see it, but Chen Chunhua can, because others have not repeated their lives, but she has aged.
Liang Shengdi is just old and lonely.
She has truly experienced the feeling of her children growing up and becoming busy with their own families.
When she was old, she still had Lin Guoqing to accompany her, but Liang Shengdi, her life partner, passed away too early.
No matter how much they took care of Liang Shengdi, it was difficult to reduce her loneliness.
When she was young in her previous life, she would occasionally look at Liang Shengdi and feel puzzled. How did she get the chance to sit on the rattan chair when the little old lady would stay there all day?
When she reached that age, she found the same thing.
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