Chapter 203 Visiting Grandma Luo

Xia Juanjuan specifically asked for Grandma Luo's address before she went to Beijing.

Grandma Luo had not originally intended to give it, but Xia Juanjuan said that if the house that the Luo family had moved into was to be taken back, she would send her a telegram to let them know, and then Grandma Luo gave it to her.

Xia Juanjuan has been kept in the space.

Xia Juanjuan felt that she had benefited too much. For such a nice yard with six main rooms and two side rooms, she was only given 500 yuan.

Apart from other things, when she later bought back the front and back courtyards of the Luo residence, she had to pay 120 yuan for two side rooms or ear rooms, and those few families still wanted to bargain.

Although it was Grandma Luo's own will to pay 500 yuan, Xia Juanjuan still wanted to compensate her if she had the chance. However, since the old lady didn't even care about 500 yuan, she probably didn't care about her compensation.

Anyway, since I'm in Beijing, I might as well go and have a look. The old lady is all alone and helpless, and quite pitiful.

Grandma Luo lived in a nursing home for martyrs' relatives, not far from the martyrs' cemetery. She went to the cemetery early in the morning every day to sit for a while, sometimes talking to herself in front of the tombstones, and came back to eat lunch and dinner at noon, and went there again in the afternoon.

She is a solitary and quiet person. She has lived in Beijing for more than a year, but she has not become cheerful. The leaders of the hospital have also asked someone to counsel her, but it was of no use, so they could only let her be.

He has indeed aged a lot, and his hair has almost turned completely white.

That day, when Grandma Luo was about to go to the cemetery, she was stopped by a nurse in the hospital, who told her that her niece from Mo County came to visit her.

Grandma Luo was still a little angry. Everyone in her natal family and husband's family had died, leaving her as an old widow. How could a niece come from?

However, the nurse had already brought Xia Juanjuan in.

Grandma Luo didn't recognize Xia Juanjuan and looked at her coldly with narrowed eyes.

Xia Juanjuan brought some soft egg cakes, some white flour, rice, two pounds of pork, twenty eggs, and an old hen. Of course, all of these were taken out by her from the space.

Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Aunt, don't you remember me? Didn't you ask me to go to the county town to help you look after houses?"

Grandma Luo was stunned for a moment before she recognized Xia Juanjuan: "Is it you?"

However, the house viewing was just a cover, the house had already been sold to the girl.

She agreed to come to Beijing because she had made up her mind to stay with her children until they died.

Moxian, I have no plan to go back.

Now this girl suddenly comes to me again, what does that mean?

Xia Juanjuan handed the old hen and pork rice noodles to the nurse and said, "Please give this to the canteen. The old hen can be boiled into chicken soup and the pork can be made into braised pork. We can eat together. You can keep these twenty eggs and stew an egg cake for my aunt every morning."

The sanatorium here also serves meals from a big pot in the cafeteria, and it is impossible for Grandma Luo, who is in her sixties or seventies, to cook for herself, so Xia Juanjuan did not plan to give the things she brought to Grandma Luo alone.

Eggs are soft. Everyone in the yard had eaten the chicken, pork, rice and flour, so the eggs were left for Grandma Luo.

After hearing this, the nurse happily carried the things to the canteen.

Although there is no shortage of food and clothing here, the supply is fixed and people are not hungry, but there is a shortage of refined grains, meat, poultry and eggs.

The elderly here have all lost their children. Usually, only "distant relatives" like Xia Juanjuan come to visit occasionally and bring food, which they prepare for their elders.

There is really no one as generous as Xia Juanjuan!

Grandma Luo frowned and asked coldly, "What are you doing? Who asked you to come?"

Xia Juanjuan didn't care about Grandma Luo's indifference and said with a smile: "Aunt, didn't I say at that time that if there was a chance, I would come to see you? Isn't this a chance now?"

Grandma Luo was speechless for a moment.

She sold the house to her at that time, so it was normal for her to say a few polite words. Who really took it seriously?

Seeing her holding a small broom, Xia Juanjuan asked, "Aunt, are you going to the cemetery? I'll go with you."

Having said that, he stepped forward and helped Grandma Luo out.

Grandma Luo frowned and shook off her hand, saying, "My legs and feet are very comfortable! I don't need your help."

If you don’t need help, then don’t need help, Xia Juanjuan followed her with a smile.

When they arrived at the cemetery, the old lady hunched over and swept the tomb with a broom. She didn't know which child's it was, so she just swept them all.

Xia Juanjuan asked the cemetery manager for a broom to help sweep.

After sweeping the house once and seeing that no one was around, Xia Juanjuan lowered her voice and said to Grandma Luo, "Aunt, I have something else to tell you. I have already bought back the two courtyards in the front and back of the Luo family's house that were donated from the residents."

Grandma Luo's face was slightly moved. She looked at Xia Juanjuan in disbelief and confirmed with a trembling voice: "Have you... bought... everything back?"

Xia Juanjuan nodded and said with a smile, "Those tenants have moved to the new staff building. No one lives in the house anymore. It would be a waste to leave it there to be eaten by insects, so I'm willing to sell it. Now the title deed and the key are in my hands. Aunt, if you get bored of staying in Beijing and want to go back and live there for a few days, just send a telegram to this address and I'll send the key to the county. But, let me make it clear in advance that I spent a lot of money to buy this house. If you go back and live there, I'm just letting you stay there temporarily, not returning the house to you, and you're not allowed to go to the county and make a fuss to get the house back!"

Grandma Luo stared at Xia Juanjuan in a daze. After a while, tears welled up from her dim and dry eyes.

When you get old, it’s a lie to say you’re not lonely.

Grandma Luo looked as if she didn't want anyone to come near her, but she was just being stubborn.