Chapter 985: The story of the two elders of the Gao family
Gao Zheng's heart was filled with throbbing after hearing her words.
Waiting for you at home...
What beautiful words.
He smiled, "Okay."
Gao Zheng opened the closet, found a jacket, put it on, and the two of them went downstairs together.
When they entered the living room, Mrs. Gao was pruning a money tree that she had placed in the corner.
Gao Zheng asked, "Mom, you didn't go out?"
Old Mrs. Gao heard her son's voice, looked over, and saw her son and future daughter-in-law coming down from upstairs. She smiled and said, "I didn't go out. Why don't you sleep a little longer?"
The old lady originally thought that Gao Zheng had sent Tang Jingyue home, but unexpectedly, two people came down from the stairs.
Old Mrs. Gao started to imagine again.
"Mom, I'm not asleep."
Gao Zheng was afraid that Tang Jingyue would feel embarrassed, so he explained, "I'm reading a book."
Mrs. Gao praised, "You are really studious."
Gao Zheng said, "Mom, I have something to do at work. Let Jingyue stay with you for a while. I will come back to send her off in the evening."
When Mrs. Gao heard this, her expression tensed up and she asked, "It's the weekend, and you have to go to work again?"
As soon as her son's workplace called her, Mrs. Gao's nerves became tense.
Gao Zheng responded, "Something happened."
Although she was worried, Old Lady Gao could only hide her worry in her heart. She nodded, "Xiao, go ahead and ask Jingyue to help me trim these ridges."
The old lady couldn't help but remind him, "Xiao Zheng, you must pay attention to safety."
Gao Zheng laughed, "Mom, I'm going to a meeting, what's the danger?"
When Mrs. Gao heard this, her expression immediately relaxed, she breathed a sigh of relief, and her tone became cheerful, "Meeting?"
Gao Zheng smiled and said, "Yes, I'll be back soon."
She looked at Tang Jingyue, "Jingyue, I'm leaving."
"good."
Tang Jingyue saw Gao Zheng off to the door. After he went out, she closed the door and turned back.
Old Mrs. Gao looked at Tang Jingyue with satisfaction as she sent Gao Zheng to work. Her wrinkled face was filled with a happy smile.
Her old son finally has someone who loves him.
As a mother, she finally felt relieved when she thought that her son would have someone to see him off when he went out and to greet him when he came home.
She and her husband are both old, and she doesn't know how many more years she can accompany her son. Now her son's lifelong event has finally been settled. He has found a woman he likes, and they love each other so much that she will feel relieved even if they close their eyes one day.
"Jingyue, come here quickly."
Old Mrs. Gao greeted Tang Jingyue with a smile.
Tang Jingyue walked over and reached out to take the scissors that Old Lady Gao was using to trim the grass. "Give me the scissors and I'll help you trim them."
Old Mrs. Gao was delighted. "Okay, Jingyue, you do the cutting."
Tang Jingyue learned how to trim weeds from her grandmother when she was a child, and she is quite familiar with trimming weeds at home.
Old Mrs. Gao nodded as she watched from the side. "Jingyue, you cut it really beautifully. I just cut it randomly. Look, all the leaves of this money tree have been cut off by me."
Tang Jingyue smiled and said, "I learned it from my grandma before."
Old Mrs. Gao nodded. "Your grandmother is a young lady from a wealthy family. She is proficient in tea-making, as well as various arts such as music, chess, calligraphy and painting. When we lived in the same compound, I often saw her doing these things. She wanted to teach me, but I had no interest at all. Now that I have some free time, I plant some flowers at home. It makes me feel good just by looking at them."
Tang Jingyue carefully cut the dried leaves, "Yes, planting them at home is not only pleasing to the eye, but also purifies the air."
She said, "My grandma used to do it all the time, but then her legs hurt and she didn't bother anymore."
Old Madam Gao sat next to Tang Jingyue, watching her movements with her hands, and said with a smile, "In the past, I remember your grandmother always taught us women in the compound how to cut hair. We both came from the countryside, so we didn't have the leisure time. We all said we didn't want to do it. We were only suitable for rough work. We haven't learned it yet, but look how beautiful your haircut is."
"Gao Nai...Oh, no, Bo Li, is your hometown also from the countryside?"
Tang Jingyue heard her words and asked curiously.
Since they are a family now, she wants to know about the old man’s life in the past so that she will have something to talk about in the future.
Old Mrs. Gao nodded. "Yes, your uncle and I are both from the countryside. Don't look at the people living in the compound now. Counting three generations ago, who is not from a poor peasant family?"
"Then when did you meet Uncle Gao?"
Tang Jingyue asked with interest.
Old Mrs. Gao narrowed her eyes and thought for a while, then said, "We met... probably 50 years ago."
"So were you in a free love relationship or were you introduced by a matchmaker?"
Tang Jingyue simply put down the scissors, sat down, and held her chin with her hand, like a child listening to a story.
Old Madam Gao looked at Tang Jingyue and laughed, "Silly girl, there was no such thing as free love back then, we couldn't even get enough food to eat, how could we understand these things?
He and I had an orthodox arranged marriage, and we only met once before we got married."
"What?
Married after only meeting once?"
Tang Jingyue opened her eyes wide in disbelief and looked at Old Lady Gao.
Is this love at first sight or what?
Get married after just one meeting?
Mrs. Gao patted her thigh, looking relieved, "Yes, luckily he is a good person, otherwise, if not, you said you wouldn't know anything after meeting him once, it would be like gambling. If I had met someone who was unreliable, how could I live the happy life I have now?"
Tang Jingyue became even more curious after hearing this, and looked at Old Lady Gao with sparkling eyes, "Tell me the story between you and Uncle Gao."
Old Madam Gao looked at her and smiled dotingly, "Why are you suddenly interested in our story?"
Tang Jingyue replied very honestly, "Since you said you got married after only meeting once, I'm curious."
Old Mrs. Gao smiled and fell into distant memories. "That was more than ten years ago."
"I remember that we were at war at that time. The Japanese invaders came to raid our houses every now and then. Our family was so poor that we couldn't even afford to eat. All the strong laborers in the village were drafted into the army. My family was spared because my father had a leg injury and couldn't work. There were many children in my family and I was the eldest in the platoon. I was pretty at that time, with a pretty face. Once, when I was going to the market, I was spotted by a traitor on the road and he followed me for a long distance.
After I got home, I told my parents and they were terrified. They were afraid that I would be targeted and captured by the Japanese devils and traitors. So they hid me in the house and never let me go out. I wore my mother's clothes all day long, with unkempt hair and a dirty face on purpose. I spent all day working at home, doing needlework.
For more than two years, I hadn't left the village, and I was not allowed to go to the market in town.
Finally, the Japanese were driven away. When I was 20 years old, a friend of my father who lived with him came to our house with a handsome henchman in military uniform. When they walked in, I saw that they were soldiers and I was very nervous. But his uniform was different from the Japanese ones before. My hair was messy like a chicken coop at the time. When the henchman in military uniform saw me, I was so scared that I quickly hid in the woodshed.
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