However, this medal also gave him the confidence to continue. He must participate in the Sydney Olympics three years later!
Xu Ruipeng came here with the Guangdong Provincial Delegation, and when he returned, he naturally followed the team.
Originally, my parents and aunt also wanted to return to Beijing as soon as possible, but Xu Manman didn't let them.
"You're all retired now. You've been busy all your lives, so don't you deserve a good rest? If you don't want to stay in Hong Kong, then fine. But now that you're back home, why don't you stay a little longer?"
After much persuasion, the old men and women were finally persuaded to calm down.
They also want to stay in their hometown for a while longer.
Xu Gang and Chen Meiyu had both been away from Haishi for nearly 20 years, and Li Fang even longer. After following her husband's transfer, she had few opportunities to return. Almost 40 years had already passed in the blink of an eye.
Xu Manman was afraid that they would get bored living in the small Western-style building, so after sending her eldest nephew away, she asked Jin Zichu to clean up the Xu family's ancestral home and the whole family moved there.
Even Xu Wen and Lu Meihua came over to join in the fun.
"You know what, after living in a small Western-style building for so long, living in a courtyard like this is truly a unique experience."
Xu Wen used scissors to trim the flowers and trees in the yard. No one had lived in the ancestral home for many years, but there had always been someone specially arranged to maintain it, and he would come over to check on it from time to time.
Although the ancestral home has been renovated, Jin Zichu still retained the original appearance to the greatest extent. He can occasionally find memories of his youth in it.
So compared to others, brothers Xu Gang and Xu Wen are the happiest living in the old house. It's a pity that their eldest brother Xu Lei is not here.
After they had calmed down from reminiscing about the past, Xu Manman arranged a tour guide and a fleet of cars to take them on a trip to the next door.
Xu Manman and Jin Zichu did not join in the fun. Anyway, the staff and medical care were all there, and the funding was sufficient, so there was no need to worry that they would not have fun.
She and Jin Zichu also went on a self-driving tour to the west. In the past, she often traveled on the north-south line and had been to the east quite a lot, but she rarely visited the central and western parts.
They traveled all the way from Hai City through Zhejiang Province, Anhui Province, Jiangxi Province, and Hubei Province. When they arrived at the border of Hunan Province, Xu Manman actually felt a sense of homesickness.
As the car entered Hunan Province, Jin Zichu looked worriedly at his wife, who was clearly agitated. "Manman?"
Xu Manman took a sip of honey water from the thermos and said, "It's okay."
"Do you want to go and take a look?" Although it could not empathize with his wife, it also knew what Xu Manman was struggling with now.
Xu Manman looked at the unfamiliar yet particularly familiar scenery outside the window, feeling a little undecided.
In her previous life, she was from Hunan Province, and her hometown village was only an hour's drive away from the border between the two provinces.
Therefore, the food and customs of their hometown can be considered a fusion of the two provinces.
She was born in 1995 in her previous life, which means she would be a three-year-old baby by today's standards.
But Xiao Jin had told her before that there would never be another "Xu Manman" in this world.
If there is no "Xu Manman", then what about her parents?
Where are Mr. Xu and Ms. Zhao?
And my grandparents back home...
More than 20 years have passed, and Xu Manman thought she had let it go. But when she set foot on her hometown again, the longing hidden deep in her heart was dug out again. Just thinking about it made her eyes warm.
Xu Manman, immersed in her own world, had not yet noticed that their car had already deviated from the originally planned route.
When she came to her senses and saw the straight road, her breathing became rapid.
In her previous life, starting from sixth grade and for three years of junior high school, she rode her bicycle back and forth every week. She could walk on this road with her eyes closed. How could she not recognize it?
Their area is a plain, and the straight roads are a feature. The road has now been paved with cement, but the lanes are not wide, and it requires the skills of the drivers to make two minibuses pass each other.
Moreover, there are ditches on both sides of the road, and no trees have been planted yet, so there is a risk of falling into the ditch if you are not careful.
The car drove to the end of the road, turned left, and drove into the village road across a small bridge.
This road is still a dirt road. Fortunately, it has not rained recently, so the compacted road is not very dirty except for some dust.
Ten minutes later, we went up a small slope and turned right.
Xu Manman could no longer suppress her inner excitement. She sat up straight and tried to get closer to the windshield, trying to take in every frame of the scenery outside.
At that time, there were not many people living in the village. Her grandparents were the first group to move down. It was not until the millennium that more people began to move down.
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