Xie Wanlian is not a realistic person, but she has been polished into a very realistic person by reality.
So she worked very hard to make money so that Grandma Xie could live a happy life to the best of her ability.
During the summer vacation, Xie Wanlian was not idle either. She was busy making money because Grandma Xie was old, in her seventies or eighties, and in poor health. She needed to take medicine and see a doctor regularly, which cost a lot of money.
In the hot summer, it is hotter in the countryside than in the city.
Today, Xie Wanlian spent a huge sum of 699 yuan to buy a 1p Gemei air conditioner for her grandmother to enjoy.
She didn’t know what brand this Gree Midea was, but she bought it on Pinxixi. It was a joint venture between Gree and Midea, right?
This small village is too far away. We can provide installation, but it will cost extra.
Add money? Xie Wanlian absolutely couldn't tolerate that.
Isn't it just installing an air conditioner? I, Xie Wanlian, can even fix a house, so what's a mere air conditioner?
So, Xie Wanlian found Uncle Niu and drove his Wuling van to the express company in the county town more than ten kilometers away to pick up the air conditioner. After bringing it back, she installed the air conditioner with Uncle Niu and Aunt Niu.
It’s nothing more than finding a hole and hanging up the air conditioner. Xie Wanlian knows how to do it.
Women are weak by nature, but the poorer they are, the stronger they become.
Most of the people in this village are middle-aged and elderly. The young people have moved out, and the majority of them are left behind by the elderly.
Xie Wanlian is the only college student in the village. She is usually very enthusiastic in the village. She helps the elderly in the village repair electrical appliances and teaches them how to use smartphones to video chat with their children who work outside.
Xie Wanlian is very popular in the village.
"Aunt Xie, your granddaughter has made great progress. I'll turn on the air conditioner for you so you can enjoy it." Aunt Niu said while holding the ladder.
A smile appeared on the weathered face of blind Grandma Xie, who was sitting in the yard.
A moment later.
Xie Wanlian installed the outdoor unit and came down from the ladder: "Uncle Niu, turn it on and try it."
Uncle Niu in the room said, "Why is there no response?"
"Ah? No way, is it bad?"
"Oh, I forgot to plug it in. Okay, the indicator light is on."
"Grandma, let me help you go in and enjoy the air conditioning." Xie Wanlian helped Grandma Xie back to the room. The air conditioner was installed in Grandma Xie's room. She was a filial child.
After feeling the air conditioner with Aunt Niu and Uncle Niu and confirming that there was cool air coming out, Aunt Niu and Uncle Niu praised Xie Wanlian and went back to cook dinner.
"Grandma, you turn on the air conditioner, I'll go cook."
"good."
Grandma Xie sat on the edge of the bed, watching Xie Wanlian close the door and go to the kitchen. It wasn't pitch black where Grandma Xie couldn't see anything. She could see light in her eyes, but her vision was so hazy and thick that it seemed like countless layers of plastic wrap had been stacked on top of each other, and she couldn't see anything.
Compared to complete darkness, at least she was in the light.
Her granddaughter Xie Wanlian is her light.
"Cough, cough, cough..." Grandma Xie covered her mouth and coughed a few times. She didn't want the cough to be too loud so as not to worry her granddaughter. After returning from Yichun, she felt that her health was getting worse day by day. Maybe her life was really coming to an end.
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For dinner, there were a few side dishes and a pot of pumpkin porridge. Xie Wanlian had become accustomed to eating porridge with Grandma Xie.
While eating, Grandma Xie asked, "Wanlian, how are you and Achan doing?"
Xie Wanlian: "Very good, what's wrong?"
Grandma Xie: "That's good."
If Grandma Xie had nothing to do and asked Lin Can to come and play, why would a rich second-generation person come to this remote place?
After dinner and washing up, Xie Wanlian came to sleep with Grandma Xie, holding a pillow, and they enjoyed the air conditioning together. Grandma Xie recalled many interesting things about Xie Wanlian's childhood. In recent days, Grandma Xie always liked to reminisce about the past.
Xie Wanlian chatted for a few minutes and then fell asleep with the air conditioner on. She was very tired every day and would fall asleep as soon as she got out of bed.
Grandma Xie said she was very considerate of her granddaughter, saying she was very tired and felt very distressed.
Grandma Xie quietly got up from the bed, put on her coat, leaned on her crutch, limped out of the house, and walked towards the back mountain. Although she couldn't see, she had walked in this village for seventy or eighty years and was very familiar with it. Moreover, although she couldn't see, her hearing became more sensitive, and with the crutch to help her find the way, there would be no problem.
Under the bleak moonlight, Grandma Xie came to two earthen graves on the back mountain.
There was no tombstone before, just an earthen grave. Later, Xie Wanlian asked someone to make a tombstone. It was the grave of Grandma Xie’s husband and son.
My husband died when he was in his thirties. He was working in a quarry and was hit to death by a falling stone.
Grandma Xie raised her son alone, but when he was 20 years old, he was run over and killed by a car on his way home. It was in the 1990s, and there was no surveillance at that time. Grandma Xie was notified of his death until the next day, and she didn't even know what car had run over him.
The sorrows that life cannot bear are: losing a spouse at a young age and losing a child in middle age.
Later, she worked sweeping the streets in Harbin, living alone in the world. One cold winter night, she heard a baby girl crying on the roadside, so she adopted her. Although it was hard, it was worth it.
Grandma Xie stood in front of the grave, silent, and no one knew what she was thinking. Grandpa Xie's grave was a pun, because Grandma Xie would be buried with him in the future.
The graves of a family of three are next to each other. They cannot be a family in this world, but they will be a family forever in the underworld.
This has been Grandma Xie’s only wish over the past few decades.
My first half of life was very hard, and I really want to go down and be with them.
Her second half of life was very happy because she met Xie Wanlian. She still wanted to go on, but she couldn't bear to leave Xie Wanlian. She didn't know what would happen to her granddaughter if she left.
She even hoped that Xie Wanlian would be a little cold-blooded, not care so much about a blind man like her, or even despise her. That would be great. Then she wouldn't cry when she died and would just be a passerby.
Grandma Xie is blind and lame, all because of supporting Xie Wanlian. An old woman in her sixties has to raise a baby to adulthood and send him to college. She does her best and is very great.
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