That afternoon.
When Old Mrs. Ning ate the noodles with mushrooms and meat sauce, the old lady, who had enjoyed both good and bad times, was stunned for a moment and then quickened her eating pace.
She’s so fast that she doesn’t seem like an old lady.
Maodan was dumbfounded.
"Grandma, go slowly, don't choke." he said hurriedly.
Old Lady Ning didn't slow down. She swallowed the noodles in her mouth and said, "I can't slow down. I haven't had a decent meal in years!"
"No." Maodan exposed her, "My Aunt Lin just sent me some delicious chicken soup a few days ago."
"How can they be the same?" said Old Mrs. Ning.
Maodaner didn't go against his grandmother, and said seriously, "Aunt Lin taught me, grandma likes it... I'll make it for you."
Grandma Ning was touched, "My grandson is so filial, grandma is so lucky."
She really felt that she was lucky. She had a good family background when she was a child and had never suffered any hardship. She had never been bullied after getting married. She gave birth to a promising son (although he died), her daughter-in-law was also a good one, and her grandson was sensible and filial.
Maodan was used to his grandma praising him like this, so his expression didn't change at all, and he said, "I'll cook it when I buy the meat."
Old Mrs. Ning is looking forward to it, "These days are becoming more and more promising."
"In another five or six years I will be able to earn work points. By then I can make dumplings, buns and chicken soup for grandma every day." Maodan'er's young face was full of seriousness.
Mrs. Ning: “…”
"Don't you want to be a worker?" she asked.
"How?" Maodaner looked at his milk, with meat sauce on the corner of his mouth, and licked it off with his tongue, "The uncles in the village all want to be workers, why can't they be workers?"
He frowned and said, "Grandma, we should be pragmatic and down-to-earth. A stable job is not something that we country folk can hold."
Old Lady Ning: I was lectured by my grandson...
"Why can't you hold it?" Old Lady Ning revealed her secrets to her grandson, "I don't care what others do, you can definitely be a worker, just wait until you graduate from junior high school."
"?" Maodan showed a helpless expression. I don't know where his confidence came from.
Old Mrs. Ning saw that her grandson didn't believe her and was extremely depressed, but she didn't say much.
Humph! You’ll know when he grows up!
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County.
Not far from the train station.
Lin Shifan stood in the shade with the help of crutches, watching Lin's father and mother walk into the wasteland. After walking around a few times, they stopped, half-knelt down, and started digging something.
He was full of question marks.
After waiting for a while, I couldn't help but jump over on one leg.
Before he could say anything, he met Song Xiwei's displeased eyes.
"Why are you running around? Don't you want your legs anymore?"
Lin Shifan touched the tip of his nose and clumsily changed the subject, "Mom, what are you and my dad digging?"
Song Xiwei couldn't bear to say anything more about his son's misfortune, so he replied, "... digging for gold."
I'm telling the truth.
However, Lin Shifan didn't believe it.
"Pfft..." He laughed out loud and looked around. There was no one around, not even a dog.
"There is no gold here. Dad, Mom, how did you know there is gold here? You must have been fooled." Lin Shifan tried to hold back his laughter.
Lin Heling raised his eyes and glanced at him lightly, "What if there is?"
Lin Shifan chuckled and said cheekily, "If there really is any, give me some."
"..." I really shouldn't have had too high expectations of the third brother's thick skin.
Lin Heling sent him away, "Go sit over there. If you still want to stay in the army, don't use your legs too hard."
Lin Shifan lowered his eyes and looked at his sluggish right leg, something flashing in his eyes.
He's afraid he can't stay.
He loves being a soldier so much and can't bear to leave his comrades. He has many regrets in his heart, but if he has to leave, he will leave with dignity.
Ahhh, I clearly convinced myself, but why do my eyes feel so sore when I think about retiring from the army?
"Who are you showing your dejected face to? You don't look like a qualified soldier at all!" Song Xiwei slapped Lin Shifan on the back. She was so strong that she could lift a wild boar weighing over 200 pounds. The young man grimaced in pain from the slap.
Before she could cry out to her biological father for comfort, Song Xiwei looked at him with disdain.
"You've only seen a few doctors about your leg. If Western medicine doesn't work, there are still traditional Chinese medicine doctors. What are you afraid of? If it doesn't work, your father and I will take you to the capital to see the best doctor. You are a determined soldier, and you are not as good as an ordinary country woman like me."
Lin Shifan had a strange look in his eyes.
An ordinary country woman?
He almost doesn't recognize the word "ordinary" anymore.
"Mom." Lin Shifan covered his chest and coughed twice, looking miserable as if he had been beaten and suffered internal injuries.
Song Xiwei waved his face away and said, "Go away, don't disturb your father and I from doing our business."
Lin Shifan's face was full of wounds.
Before, he was called Shifan and Saner, but after just a few days, he became a picked up person.
"Fanfan, find a clean place to sit. Your mother and I will be there in a moment. After we dig out the gold, we will take you out for dinner." Lin Heling spoke gently, comforting San'er's little heart.
Lin Shifan rubbed his feet uncomfortably. Well, he was almost 30 years old, why did his father still call him by his nickname?
I wanted to express my dissatisfaction, but I was afraid that Ms. Song would get angry, so I didn't dare to provoke her.
He didn't dare to exert force on his injured leg for fear that the wound would split, so he did not go forward to help. Instead, he flattened the dry yellow grass baked by the scorching sun, sat on the ground, stretched his injured leg, and watched his parents busying around.
"Dad, Mom, would you like some water?" Lin Shifan raised his voice.
"No, drink it yourself." Lin Heling didn't even turn his head, and started walking again, counting silently in his heart.
"It should be here." He said to Song Xiwei.
Song Xiwei didn't doubt it and kept digging. But without the right tools, it would be inconvenient for her to dig even if she was strong.
"Mom, take this." Lin Shifan shouted and threw his crutch over, "Use this to dig."
Afraid that I would use too much force and break his tool leg, I hurriedly said, "Be gentle."
Song Xi glanced at him and said, "I understand."
After saying that, he added: "If it breaks, I'll carry you back."
Lin Shifan split open.
Don't.
He has a lot of baggage.
Song Xiwei started digging on the spot with his crutch.
The tools are handy and she is strong. The progress is encouraging.
About ten minutes later.
Covered with loess, the wooden box, whose shape cannot be seen, is exposed to the air.
"It's out." Lin Heling's eyes brightened. "If I remember correctly, there are ten gold bars and some miscellaneous jewelry inside."
As he spoke, Song Xiwei squatted down, reached out, and pulled out the wooden box with force.
With a rustling sound, the soil outside the wooden box fell down.
She dusted it off and shook off the dirt, revealing the complete appearance of the wooden box.
The surface of the box is carved with intricate patterns and is extremely delicate. It has an arched lid with a small lock on it.
After hearing what his biological father said, Lin Shifan dragged his injured leg over. When he saw that his parents had really dug out something, his pupils trembled.
"!"
"Dad, what's this?" He was shocked.
Lin Heling's eyes were helpless, but his tone was patient enough, "Didn't I tell you, it's gold."
"No, no, I mean..." Lin Shifan was so surprised that he stuttered, "I mean where did this come from?"
Lin Heling smiled, "Ours."
Lin Shifan thought his father was joking. He was a soldier with a sense of righteousness. He immediately said, "Dad, ill-gotten gains are not acceptable."
Lin Heling didn't think there was anything wrong with this.
He smiled and explained, "This is what I buried before."
The wrinkles on Lin Shifan's brows disappeared, and his eyes were filled with undisguised astonishment. He asked in surprise, "Dad, did you remember who you are?"
He had no desire to possess his father's money, he just wanted his father to stop having headaches after his memory was restored!
"I still remember it piecemeal, incomplete, like fragments." Lin Heling said.
However, he found that when he thought of the box of gold, his head swelled, but it was still tolerable and not as painful as before, which made him feel half dead.
This is progress.
Great progress.
In this way, he no longer felt so... nervous when thinking about this incident in the past.
Lin Shifan was happy for his father.
"This way you won't have headaches in the future!" an excited voice sounded.
Before Meng Jiusi was recognized as a child, he was the youngest son of the Lin family. He was loved by his parents, coaxed by his brothers and indulged by his uncle. His life was so comfortable and he had everything he wanted.
In front of his family, especially his parents, he was at ease and casual, without any of the rigid seriousness acquired through military training.
Lin Heling patted San'er's head and felt a tingling sensation on his palm.
He was slightly stunned.
In a blink of an eye, San'er has grown into a big man. I still remember the year when he sent him to join the army. He touched San'er's head and his hair was still soft. In just a few years, that naive and fearless kid has become a real young man.
"Dad, what's wrong with you?" Lin Shifan touched his face, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
He leaned his face closer and said cheekily, "I've become more handsome after basking in the sun and feeling the wind from my hometown?"
Lin Heling: “…”
Song Xiwei commented pertinently: "You are not as handsome as your father."
After saying that, he looked at Lin Heling and asked, "Do you have a key to this box?"
"It's gone long ago." Lin Heling replied.
He lost many things when he fled in a hurry.
Song Xi nodded slightly and pulled hard with her hand, and the small lock on the exquisite wooden box was pulled off.
"Okay." His tone was light.
It was like whipping a ferocious bandit away with a whip back then.
Lin Heling looked over with loving eyes.
"Great!" he praised.
The slender and beautiful hands opened the wooden box.
A dozen gold bars emitted a dazzling light under the sunlight.
"Hiss!" Lin Shifan, who had never seen the world, hissed.
Lin Heling patted San'er's shoulder. His voice was gentle, but his words were slightly stinging.
"Don't act like an inexperienced person. We have a lot of this kind of stuff in our Lin family."
This is what he feels subconsciously.
Coming back to his senses, he remembered that he had forgotten everything else. He cleared his throat and said, "If I remember correctly, there are twelve gold bars in this wooden box. Your mother and I have four sons and one daughter. I will give you two bars each, and your mother and I will keep two bars. The rest of the jewelry... will be left to your mother and Zhao Zhao."
Lin Heling divided the contents of the wooden box in a few words.
Song Xiwei counted the gold bars inside, "There are indeed twelve gold bars."
One stick is not light.
Having too many sons is not worth much, she prefers her daughters. "Give this box to Zhao Zhao as well. She likes antiques."
This box is made of huanghuali wood, Zhaozhao will definitely like it.
Lin Shifan had no objection.
He picked up a gold bar and weighed it in his hand.
"It's quite heavy," he commented seriously.
"Dad, you are so careless. You just throw away so many valuable things. Aren't you afraid that someone will pick them up?"
It's not buried very deep. If it rains, the soil on top will be blown away and the box will be exposed.
Where did this young master come from?
Lin Heling's eyes were calm, "Compared to life, these are all external things."
After a pause, he said, "Besides... I'm lucky, I won't get lost."
It turns out that all the properties and money he lost... are still there.
Lin Shifan put the gold bars back, buckled them up, and wanted to hold the box.
"Don't want your legs anymore!" Song Xiwei knocked his hand away and slammed the cane into his palm. "I'll give it to you when I get home. You're a money-grubber. You don't even have a partner. What do you need gold bars for?"
As the only unmarried person in the family who has never had a boyfriend, Lin Shifan's status in the family continues to decline.
He said nothing.
well.
Originally, there was Xiao Si who could serve as a shield, but who knew that he already had two children!
Lin Heling saw San'er looking pitiful, and smiled to smooth things over, "Xiwei, let's go, eat first, and then go see Zhaozhao."
"It's Zhao Zhao's birthday. This is the first time we're not there. I hope she's not sulking."
He frowned and said, "I don't know if she ate the longevity noodles."
Thinking of her daughter being depressed, the daughter twisted her fingertips, feeling distressed.
"Didn't he say that his brother-in-law was here? Why didn't he even make longevity noodles for Zhaozhao?" Lin Shifan's smile faded, and his voice became a little frosty. He clasped his hands together and squeezed them hard, making a crackling sound.
Lin Heling is very satisfied with Gu Chenghuai as his son-in-law, and he has nothing to say about Zhao Zhao.
"Don't overthink it. Cheng Huai treats Zhao Zhao very well."
Lin Shifan: "Oh."
In this case, why should parents worry?
don't know.
I'm afraid he won't understand this question until he has a daughter.
As he spoke, Song Xiwei put the wooden box into a snakeskin bag, carried it with one hand, and helped Lin Shifan walk to the flat ground.
After the family of three had their meal, they boarded the ox cart and headed for the harvest team.
There are many children playing at the entrance of the village.
When Lin Heling saw his twin grandchildren, a voice neither light nor heavy rang out.
The warm voice exudes happiness.
"Yubao, Hengbao."
Yubao and Hengbao went out to walk the dog, and for the nth time the kids pestered them to talk about things in the provincial capital.
The two brothers were generous. While Dahuang and Amber were strolling, they sat cross-legged on a small stone under the tree and started talking about what you started and I supplemented.
After a while, they heard someone calling them.
The two brothers looked in the direction of the sound.
When he saw the people on the ox cart, he was stunned for a moment, and then rushed over like a gust of wind.
She kept shouting, "Grandpa, Grandma!"
Song Xiwei jumped off the ox cart, picked up Yubao and Hengbao one by one, threw them into the air, and caught them steadily. The two children shouted with joy.
"It's so high!"
Lin Shifan was very envious.
He also wants to play like this with his nephew!
He looked at his injured leg with hatred and felt like going crazy.
While grandma was leaving his brother behind, Yubao looked at the stranger in military uniform and asked, "Grandpa, who is this?"
He's wearing the same clothes as dad. Is he dad's comrade-in-arms?
Before Lin Heling could speak, Lin Shifan showed his white teeth and introduced himself: "Your third uncle, dear third uncle, your mother's third brother, dear brother."
Yu Bao's eyes widened, and the usually calm elder brother raised his voice.
"Hengbao, it's my third uncle, the one who sent me milk tablets and dried dates!"
After saying this, he ran home.
Just as I reached the door of my house, I shouted, "Mom, my third uncle is back!"
"And my grandma and grandpa!"
Knowing that Lin Zhao was concerned about the three people who came, Yu Bao did not keep the person in suspense and called out one sentence after another.
Lin Zhao walked out of the room.
"Your third uncle and your grandparents are back?" she confirmed.
"That's right."
Lin Zhao walked quickly out of the door and looked towards the village entrance, where she saw three familiar figures in the distance.
Jog over.
"Dad, Mom, Third Brother." She shouted, and stepped forward to help Lin Shifan, her words full of concern: "Third Brother, how is your leg? Does it hurt? If it hurts, don't bear it. I'll find a car to push you."
Lin Shifan's heart, which looked strong on the outside but was actually weak on the inside, instantly turned into water.
This is his sister.
"It's okay!" He raised his head and waved his hands, "It will be fine after half a month!"
Lin Zhao was half-believing and half-doubting, and thought to herself, I will take my third brother to see Grandpa Meng later.
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