"That's all."

"He's happy because he likes Sanwa...Taurus?"

"He didn't say he liked Sanwa. He was happy because he thought you, his big brother, were so good to him that you asked Jinniu to be his grandson for a few days!"

"..." Meng Changshou stuffed the pipe into his mouth. He couldn't light it but took a deep puff. He even choked himself. He coughed and said, "What do you think? I'm his elder brother, why shouldn't I be nice to him? You know shit! Only your grandfather knows: I was the one who asked Jinniu to go to Linshui Village!"

Meng Tao looked at him sideways with an expression that said, "You're just lying to kids, I don't believe it."

Meng Changshou snorted, "Between me and my brother, we just need to understand it in our hearts. There's no need for me to bother with a little girl like you!"

"That's not necessary. When my grandfather was alive, he would sometimes go back to the village to worship his ancestors, but you wouldn't let him in for more than ten years. Now that he's dead, what else can you say?"

"Who won't let me in? He doesn't like to come in. He doesn't even come into the village. We brothers meet in the mountains every year. I know when he will come. Why don't we meet? You know shit!"

"It's all because of that vicious old woman Geng Liuju that you married. My grandfather can't even go back to his ancestral home!"

"It's all because of you, a poor little disaster, a troublemaker, that you brought him down!"

Meng Tao: “…”

The damn old man, so feudal, is indeed the one who is married to Geng Liuju.

Meng Tao stopped talking and the air became quiet. Meng Changshou then realized that the other patients and their families in the ward were all looking over here. He quickly put down his pipe, turned around and faced the wall without saying a word.

He thought that he might be not used to this strange place, and was too bored and annoyed, so he quarreled with the dead girl. It was so embarrassing!

Meng Tao ignored him and walked to the window to look at the dark night outside. Then he turned back and looked at the ward. There were six beds in total, with three patients lying in them. All of them were accompanied by their family members, with one family member per bed.

Meng Jinniu was still in a coma because of the anesthetic. Meng Tao said to Meng Changshou, "There should be hot water in the bathroom. Go wash up first. I'll look after him when you come back so I can stay in a hotel. It's not safe on the street at this late hour."

Meng Changshou disagreed with Meng Tao going to the hotel: "It's a waste of money. You sleep on this bed, and I'll squeeze in with Sanwa... Jinniu!"

Meng Tao was speechless: Meng Jinniu looked like this, with both legs bandaged and his hair tangled like a mummy, and you still went to squeeze him, because you thought the money you spent was too little? "Are you going to wash or not? If not, I'll leave." Meng Tao said directly.

Meng Changshou knew that he couldn't control Meng Tao, so he had to pick up the bowl and walked out.

It was already ten o'clock in the evening when Meng Tao returned to the hotel.

She still wanted a single room. After washing up with hot water, she locked the door and windows, lowered the curtains tightly, turned off the lights and went to sleep. In fact, she entered into a space and found herself on a small platform in the sea of ​​clouds and fog. She felt that her whole body and mind were cleansed. All the worldly dust was gone, and her mind was calm and refreshed. She first sat cross-legged with her eyes closed in meditation, enjoying the moment of indifference and comfort.

She was a mortal, unable to escape from the secular world, so she couldn't completely abandon distracting thoughts. In the past, the immortals meditated and cultivated on this stone platform to ascend to heaven, and she couldn't catch up with that realm. At present, she could only pursue good health and beauty...

After meditating for an hour, Meng Tao began to inspect his own small vegetable garden.

Occasionally, the sound of dripping dew could be heard from the white porcelain basin placed under the pine tree. There was too much pine needle dew collected, and he could not drink it all himself, nor could he give it to others, so he began to use it to water the plants around the stone platform. Fruits and vegetables grew wildly, and the more harvests he accumulated, the more worrying he became - he dared not sell them, and there was no warehouse to store them. Since the stone platform was not big enough to store them, he used bamboo poles to hang them around it. Soon, the stone wall was hung with things, either sacks or bundles of cabbage. This scene looked like the countryside where baskets and bags were casually hung on beams or earth walls. This alternative scene of abundance was really sour to look at.

Meng Tao couldn't care too much now. She was only worried that the vegetables would fall down. The stone platform was surrounded by clouds and mist, which were thick and dense. Even in the golden sunlight, the visibility was only four or five meters when looking down at the stone platform. Was there a canyon abyss or a dense forest of stone peaks below? I really didn't know.

The two peach trees were still growing, and the flowers were in full bloom, as bright as clouds, delicate and gorgeous. Occasionally, they were wetted by the mist, and the petals floated down. Meng Tao felt it was a pity, so she made a gauze net to collect the fallen peach blossoms. When there were enough petals, she planned to use them to make peach blossom wine, which would be another product that could sell for money.

Part of the chrysanthemum climbs upwards, while part hangs down, but Meng Tao doesn't care. When she wants to pick the flowers, she just hooks them up with a bamboo hook. She makes a lot of chrysanthemum tea and chrysanthemum wine. In the summer, she sews a chrysanthemum pillow. When she sleeps, she has sweet dreams and is very comfortable. In her original world, her grandmother had made one for her.

The harvested tomatoes and peppers were put into sacks and hung up. Some sauces were also made. The antique tables, desks and chairs brought in from the provincial capital were covered with old cloth and newspapers. Then hundreds of sealed flat-topped ceramic jars were stacked up, each holding five kilograms, and all of them were filled with tomato sauce and chili sauce made in batches.

There are also ten-jin, twenty-jin or even larger ceramic jars filled with spicy cabbage, sauerkraut, and pickled lemons. They cannot fit on the platform, so they are divided into two parts. One part is locked in a small room behind the main hall, and the other is kept in a space. The storage positions are changed on time to ensure quality.

The square shelves are laden with fruits, including bitter gourd, cucumber and pumpkin. Gourds grow very slowly, which is a good thing, otherwise I would be too busy and have no place to store them.

There are also several beautiful golden gourds.

Meng Tao asked the village elders for gourd seeds and threw them into the cracks of the rocks. They grew like mutants. The gourds on other people's fences were all yellowish after drying, but on the stone shelf in Meng Tao's space, they grew into bright golden gourds! It must be full of fairy spirit to use it to hold water and wine. Even if it is just hung as a decoration, it is also very beautiful and elegant. The gourd symbolizes fortune and happiness. In the future, such a beautiful gourd will be worth a lot of money if it is sold...

Meng Tao slapped her forehead and couldn't help laughing: He is obsessed with money! But this pile of stuff really needs to be cleared out, otherwise the stone platform may not be able to bear it. I just don't know if Shen Yu wants them, they are all vegetables and fruits. He didn't let her sell them herself, and he said it so seriously that she was scared and didn't dare to act rashly.

After a night's rest, Meng Tao went to the hospital the next morning. Comrade Meng Jinniu had already woken up. When he saw Meng Tao walking into the ward, he looked a little excited: "Sister!"

Meng Tao approached: "Brother Jinniu, are you awake? How do you feel?"

Meng Jinniu's eyes were red: "I'm fine, thank you sister!"

When Ma Liuzi and others lifted him onto the tractor, he woke up briefly and tried to speak, but his mouth would not move and no sound came out.

Ma Liuzi told him: Taohua girl is here, and she wants to take him to the hospital for treatment! He felt relieved at that moment, thinking that he might not die.

Since we are in this world, who doesn’t want to live hard? He just didn’t guard against his family. His grandmother was harsh and his father didn’t like him, but they were also blood relatives. He never expected that they would be so cruel and want to kill him! Just because he didn’t agree to marry Geng Caiyue, his grandmother was furious and stabbed him with a pair of scissors. He was stabbed and bleeding, so he naturally reached out to grab the scissors. His grandmother shouted and asked his father to beat him to death.

A solid wooden stick as thick as an arm was swung and hit him hard on the back of the head. His eyes were blurred and he fell to the ground on the spot. Before he closed his eyes, he saw his father hitting him with one stick after another like a drowned dog. The huge pain accompanied him into endless darkness.

He thought he was dead this time, but he didn't regret it.

He had been an orphan since childhood, and his cousin Taohua had no parents either. They had the same fate. The only difference was that Taohua had a grandfather who loved her, but when she grew up, her grandfather disappeared. His cousin was broken off from engagement, but she was not sad or self-pitying. She continued to live her life as usual, arranged herself properly, earned work points with her labor, had food and drink, and attended literacy classes to learn culture.

My cousin is a weak woman, but she can work so hard to change her life. He thinks he can do it too! My cousin has learned a lot of knowledge and can talk about many truths. He remembers them all. My cousin said that people should respect themselves, love themselves, and be strong. If they can't do these, life is meaningless. She also said that filial piety is a must, but if the elders are not kind and trample on your dignity, then what's the point? My cousin also discussed with him the revolutionaries in the movies. No matter how the enemy threatened or tempted them, they would not surrender, even if they were beheaded, they would not surrender. That's called integrity! It means to persist, keep your original intention, and be a person with backbone and dignity.

In the past, Meng Jinniu was often threatened, beaten and scolded by his grandmother. He had to do things he was unwilling to do, even though he knew they were unreasonable. At that time, he thought it was filial piety.

But now grandma wants him to marry Geng Caiyue, which is really unreasonable! He doesn't like cousin Geng Caiyue at all, and he doesn't want to be someone's stepfather, so he must not agree!

So he held on, kept his original intention, and almost lost his life, but he felt so good and excited, and felt that he was different, but he didn't know what was different.

Seeing his cousin Taohua, Meng Jinniu finally realized that he had become a man of integrity and from now on he was a man of dignity! 　Let’s begin!

(End of this chapter)