The sapling Ma Jiawei was almost growing crooked, but was bent back in time.
Sanni failed to change his last name, but she kept her promise to move out. When Ma Dexiang brought his parents back from the hospital, the three of them had already moved out.
Sanni felt that Ma Jiawei was still a little too idle, so she enrolled him in a bunch of cram schools. This kept him busy during weekends and summer and winter vacations, leaving him no time to return to the village and spend time with the elderly.
Even if I occasionally came back, it was only for a meal before I had to rush to class. As time went by, the bad things I had experienced before gradually faded away.
The day he stayed in the village the longest was the funeral of Old Man and Old Lady Ma.
Ever since Sanni and her family moved out, Old Man and Old Lady Ma have been truly content. There's nothing they can do. If they cause trouble again, they're afraid that Sanni will simply change the child's surname.
And since Old Man Ma passed away, Old Mrs. Ma has become even more silent.
She ate three meals a day with Lin Yulan and the others, then sat in a corner, lost in thought. Within a year, she was gone too.
When Lin Yulan went back to her parents' home to talk to her mother, she would sigh. Someone who had tossed around all his life had just passed away so quietly. Life was really...
"That's because they are too pessimistic!" Old Mrs. Liang said calmly while chewing a beef stick.
"Especially your mother-in-law. Is her last name Ma? She's always worried about whether the Ma family line will end. In the end, neither her sons, daughters-in-law, nor her grandchildren or great-grandchildren are close to her. If she has that free time, she might as well eat more, stay healthy, and live two more years. Wouldn't that mean she can see her great-grandchildren for a few more years?"
Lin Yulan: ...That's true, but Mom, you've eaten too much.
"Here! I'll give you one." The ninety-year-old mother generously gave her seventy-year-old daughter a beef stick. "It's delicious. Chunhua brought it from the north during National Day."
Lin Yulan took a bite, then put it down, her face speechless.
"Mom... can you bite something so hard?"
Liang Shengdi tilted her head, looking puzzled. "Huh? You can't bite it?"
Then he grinned again, letting Lin Yulan see his teeth. "Tell one of your family members to take you to get dentures! Look at my teeth, they're all dentures! How nice! I can even chew big bones! You're getting old, and you can't live without good teeth! It'll be hard to eat anything later!"
Lin Yulan: ...I don’t really like it that much.
But in the end, she was accompanied by Liu Ni to get a set of porcelain teeth. It is said that when she walked out of the hospital, she felt 10 years younger.
Liu Ni looked at her mother's teeth and was very satisfied. "Mom! You know I have endless money, so you should eat and spend as you please, okay? But don't save money for me!"
Lin Yulan rolled her eyes speechlessly, "If you can't spend it all, you can give birth to a child to spend it for you!"
Here it comes again!
But this time Liu Ni was much more generous and simply spread her hands to indicate that there was nothing she could do.
"I'm already 40 years old. If I give birth again, I'll be an elderly mother. Maybe you'll be the ones to send me off before me..."
"Pah, pah, pah! What nonsense are you talking about! How can you curse yourself like that!"
"You made me give birth!"
"I'm just making a suggestion! What do you mean by sending it off to an old man... Ugh!"
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(over)
Finally! Finally! It’s finally over!!! ?*??(ˊ?ˋ*)??*?
You don't know how I got through this month! Woohoo...(；′д｀)ゞ
I am very grateful that so many friends like this novel, like Chunhua Guoqing, and like Mrs. Liang.
Some readers commented that even after being reborn, they are still like ordinary people and are not as rich as others. It is not satisfying at all and it would be better not to be reborn.
In fact, in my opinion, this is the most exciting thing.
There are not so many golden fingers in this world. The biggest golden finger is yourself.
Everyone has regrets in the past, and they all wish they had known better, if they could start over again... The initial desire for rebirth is probably just to fill those initial regrets. It's only over time that other thoughts arise.
Chunhua is just an ordinary person, even illiterate. She was suddenly reborn without any notice before her rebirth. After her rebirth, she used her own abilities to push this family in a better direction step by step.
Actually, I don’t have a rich imagination, so all the characters are adapted from real prototypes, from Chen Chunhua to Liang Shengdi, from Ma Dexiang to Lin Yulan, and even Ma Fengjuan.
I sat on a small stool and listened to various old people reminiscing about the past, and then wrote down some fragments.
Most of the prototypes have actually passed away. Whether good or bad, their descendants will still miss them, so their trip to the world is not in vain.
Sometimes it sounds unbelievable. We are considered wealthy here, but the conditions are still so difficult. What about more remote places?
When I interviewed the elderly, I truly felt how hard life was back then. The greatest hardship for ordinary people today is probably being toiled like a beast of burden, but back then… you had to make sure you could survive first.
Of course, it is impossible to completely move a person into a novel, and most of the time it is just a novel.
Well... there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand readers, but I still quite like my own adaptation. In just one year, I wrote three novels, and this is my second million-word article.
Since I didn't know how to write an outline, this year was very fulfilling. I would go to bed every day thinking about what plot I would have to write for the next day, and I would start working as soon as I opened my eyes the next day.
It really requires a lot of brainpower.
Of course, from the first book to now, I feel that my writing style and logic have improved a lot (that’s just my feeling!). At least if I read the first book again now, I can’t finish it (*/ω＼*)
(Actually, my personal favorite is the second contemporary novel, but for some reason Tomato wouldn't rate it for me! And it ended at only 300,000. At the time, my friend even said that I might not be suitable for this field, and it would be better for me to stick to the path of period novels...)
I'm planning to take a month off before starting a new article. After all, I haven't had any rest this year. I was still writing while visiting relatives during the Lunar New Year... I've decided to give myself a break. But I probably won't be writing about the period for a while. (I'm so tired from writing, I really am.)
I decided to try writing some classical Chinese novels. Of course, I say classical Chinese novels... Readers who know me well should know that I can't write about love at all. I will probably just change places and continue to work in infrastructure to make money to support my family. Hahaha~
And I probably won’t write new articles on this account, because, it is said that the mechanism of Tomato... I may come back to this account to write after I finish that book.
Anyway, we'll see each other again~
It’s all finished!! Why don’t you give me the little flower!!!
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