Chapter 6
Bi Chunliu still remembers Grandma Wang. It's said that Grandma Wang suffered greatly in her youth, and as she aged, she developed some leg problems. Her feet ached whenever she moved, making it difficult for her to get around, requiring her to be carried by others. Fortunately, the Wang family's children were very filial. Even after Grandma Wang could no longer walk, they often carried her out of the house to bask in the sun or to the village's main tree to chat with other elderly women, preventing her from remaining mired in the solitude of the house.
Bi Chunliu and her sisters greeted Grandma Wang with a smile, "Yes, Grandma Wang, we're here to see your grandma. Uncle San sent us a message saying that your grandma is sick. Are you going to get some sun?"
Is Grandma Guo sick? Wasn't she wandering around the village yesterday? Grandma Wang subconsciously felt something was wrong, but then she thought, this might be an excuse Grandma Guo used to trick the little girl back home. "It's a good day today, so your uncle Wang carried me out on his back. Your third uncle said your grandma was sick? That might have been a while ago. I saw her taking a walk in the village yesterday. Don't worry too much. With your grandma's physique, she can easily live to eighty!"
"Second brother, I just said that grandma is okay!" Bi Qiuguo whispered in the back.
Bi Chunliu hadn't expected Grandma Wang to be so accurate. In her past life, she'd been incredibly long-lived! In an age where the average life expectancy is less than seventy, she'd managed to live to be over eighty, far surpassing her peers by a wide margin! In her past life, while shopping at the market, she met someone who was said to be from Tongxi Village. The person was talking to a colleague at a nearby stall, explaining that Tongxi Village had good soil and water, and the elderly lived long lives. There was an old lady named Guo, whose son and daughter-in-law had both passed away several years earlier, yet she was still incredibly healthy!
Not to mention other people, even Bi Chunliu himself didn’t live to be over eighty!
"Grandma Wang, what's wrong with these seeds?" Bi Chunliu did not bring up the topic of illness again.
Grandma Wang saw that Chunliu seemed to understand what she was saying, and she was surprised: After not seeing her for a while, Chunliu seemed to have become smarter. "Hey, these are the vegetable seeds your uncle Wang bought this time. He was in a hurry when he bought them and didn't even check them carefully. There are good ones and some withered ones. You have to pick them out."
Bi Chunliu squatted down, took the seeds and looked at them, frowning, "So many shriveled ones? Can we go to the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange them? These buds won't even sprout, right?"
The three siblings following Bi Chunliu also squatted down, holding two or three seeds in their hands, and looked at them carefully, pretending to be serious. They also leaned over to look at the seeds in each other's hands, shaking their heads as they looked, as if the three of them were old hands in the fields.
Bi Chunliu: ...
Grandma Wang looked at the children squatting in front of her and grinned. "He went, went, and when he brought it back, I saw it and thought, 'How can this be good? What are we going to eat in a while?' I immediately let him go. Hey, I didn't expect the new leader of the supply and marketing cooperative to be so nice. He directly gave me a new bag, and I didn't want this one back. I thought I would pick out the good ones and plant the ones that can be planted in my yard. If they can't be planted, I will feed the chickens. Otherwise, it will be a waste, right?"
"Yeah, eh? The supply and marketing cooperative in the commune has changed its leader?"
Grandma Wang looked around and whispered, "Yes, I heard that the previous leader was reported for poor work style and was sent to the farm two days ago..."
Bi Qiuguo looked up, scratched his head, and asked in surprise, "Huh? I remember the previous leader was already in his fifties or sixties? And he still had problems with his work style?"
When she came back last year, she and Wangdi were supported by her grandmother to go to the meat station to buy meat. While queuing, Wangdi quietly pointed to the door of the supply and marketing cooperative next to the meat station, and said to Bi Qiuguo with a face full of longing that she would marry a man as capable as that leader in the future! One look at the man's appearance and you can tell that their family must have no shortage of meat and eggs to eat! She also told Bi Qiuguo that her mother said that it doesn't matter if a man is old and ugly, as long as he has money and tickets and lives a good life! Bi Qiuguo looked at the old man with a bulging belly and not much hair on his head:...Okay...
Grandma Wang scoffed disdainfully, "Men—" Just as she was about to express her opinion, she looked at the four lively children in front of her, one big and three small, and waved her hand, "When you grow up, you'll understand. In this world, women always suffer losses."
"Oh..." Bi Qiuguo sighed. That's how adults are. Whenever there's something they don't want to say, they just say you'll understand when you grow up.
Bi Chunliu, who had lived to be much older than the Grandma Wang who was speaking in his previous life, understood what was going on when he saw the disdainful expression on Grandma Wang's face when she mentioned men. He smiled and said, "Grandma Wang, you go ahead and get busy. You are still waiting for us. We will go back first and come back to chat with you when we have time." Bi Chunliu stood up and said goodbye to Grandma Wang.
Grandma Wang: "Okay, good children, go quickly."
The four sisters passed by. Grandma Wang nodded and said to herself, "You're not to mention city kids. They're so sensible and considerate. They even spoke softly and slowly to the old lady. How nice!"
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