Chapter 19 In an instant when you're done, something's wrong

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the next day

Today is the National Day on October 1st, the school is off for 10 days, and Jian Mei can finally go back to his grandfather's house to play. The classmates in the class invite each other to the playground. After going through some things, Jian Mei is still willing to go back to the countryside and be with her grandfather's small medicine shed.

The roads in the village are a bit remote. When they arrived at the entrance of the village, many people had just returned from the fields, and they would say hello when they saw him:

"Miaomi is back!"

"This child seems to have grown a lot taller."

"Auntie just picked the cucumber from the ground. It's very tender. Take it and taste it."

"Let's go back with this, I remember that your grandfather likes this..."

It’s not a long distance from the entrance of the village to home, and Jian Mei stops and goes. It’s just too much to cope with, and it’s actually quite a habit. When they go to work in the city, they leave behind either women and children, or the elderly alone. It is a long way to go to the hospital in the village. If everyone has any minor or serious illness, they will go to see Mr. Jian.

When Jian Mei arrived at the door of the house, he happened to see a raccoon cat walking not far from the catwalk. He squatted down and said, "Little raccoon, where did you come from?"

The raccoon cat gave him a cold look and went in.

Jian Mei hugged the melons and fruits in her arms, followed the steps of the little raccoon, and entered the door with a loud voice: "Grandpa!"

The old man sitting in the rocking chair taking a nap under the pergola was excited, looked up at him, and smiled: "Oh, is Mi Miy coming back from vacation to see grandpa?"

Jian Mei: "Where are these melons and fruits?"

"Just put it in the pool next to the well." The old man fanned the fan: "Wash two cucumbers to eat."

"Sure."

Jian Mei put her small backpack on the table, then ran over and squatted by the sink to wash the cucumbers, and asked, "Grandpa, I saw Aunt Li when I came over today. She was breathing heavily, and I saw her making a few noises. Cough, it is estimated that it will turn cold in autumn, and her asthma has become a lot worse."

"Looking, hearing, asking, and knowing, both are indispensable." The old man closed his eyes and said, "But she has an old problem. You can go to the backyard to pick up the auxiliary medicine and show it to me later, don't make a mistake."

When he was young, Jian Mei just learned to walk and became a little medicine boy behind the old man. The medicine cabinet at home was tall and large. Sometimes the old man's legs and feet were inconvenient, so Jian Mei jumped up and down to take medicine. Even if he was illiterate, he could remember the location. , Those prescriptions were memorized thoroughly. Later, when he went to elementary school, Jian’s father installed a medicine cabinet that could automatically lift up and down for the old man regardless of the obstacles. The provincial old man had to climb up and down.

The doctor's work is always busy in the department and the operating table, and Shen Meina also rushes around the country to announce that Jian Mei has been raised in the countryside since she was a child, and she has the closest relationship with the old man.

Jian Mei said yes, came over and handed him the cucumber: "Grandpa taste it."

The cucumber is juicy and tender, and after being washed with well water, it still tastes a little sweet. The old man said with emotion: "This year's season is good, God enjoys the rice, the grain is also harvested, the herbs on the mountain are growing well, even these melons and fruits are good eat."

Jian Mei was sitting next to the pony pier. He looked at the chickens swaying around in the fence not far away, and muttered: "Grandpa doesn't farm, so it's not all things sent by grandpa or aunts."

The old man sneered: "What do you know, little brat?"

"I understand!" Jian Mei took a bite of a small cucumber, and the breeze gently blew through the vines. His round eyes curled, and he said softly, "Because grandpa doesn't want grandpas to dare to see a doctor."

Perhaps only people in the village have this tacit understanding of each other.

Some elderly people who have been in the village all the year round have lost their labor force, and their children are still alive. Some children died early and have no source of income.

When get a serious illness or a small illness, want to get through it on own, but don’t dare to go to the clinic or find a doctor.

No one knows about the old man's life savings, but he is absolutely free of food and clothing, but he will still accept the melons and fruits sent by the neighbors and villagers when they are free.

The old man ate the cucumber slowly, and said with some emotion: "When your grandma was here, she liked to grow these flowers and plants."

Jian Mei was curious: "I haven't heard of you."

Grandma died early, and the couple were deeply in love. No one in the family dared to mention this sad thing. Jian Mei had only seen photos on her grandfather's bedside table since she was a child.

The old man smiled: "You want to see it."

Jian Mei nodded fiercely: "Come here."

The old man got up and walked towards the house, Jian Mei followed behind him step by step, there was a well-locked cabinet in the study in the back room, the old man took out a photo album from it, it must be quite a few years old, some photo albums It is yellowed, but it can be seen that the owner is very caring, and the old photos in the album are still well preserved after opening the album.

"This... is the epiphyllum your grandma planted, and it's the first time it has bloomed."

Jian Mei sat on the sofa, snuggled beside him, and pointed to the photo: "What about this?"

"This is the aster that your grandmother planted." The old man's smile was gentle and kind: "I told her that there are many in the mountains, but she didn't listen. She insisted that it looked good at home."

Seemingly reproachful words are full of pampering.

Jian Mei looked at the photo with crooked eyebrows: "Grandma is so beautiful."

The old man's tone was filled with unstoppable pride: "That's right, she was the most beautiful in every ten miles and eight townships back then."

Jian Mei cracked a smile and quietly listened to the old man talking about his past with his wife one by one. In fact, he has grown old these years, and he can't remember many things clearly, but looking at the photos, he can tell every story behind him. The background and stories are told in nuanced detail. Over the years, he has held these memories in his arms, and every point has passed through his mind countless times. It is also these memories that have accompanied him for the rest of his life.

"It's Ali."

"It's not Ahri, it's Ahri's mother."

"So Ahri's mother was at home at such a young age?"

"That's right." The old man looked at the kitten in the photo: "That year, I went to the mountains to collect herbs. This civet cat broke its leg and was picked up by your grandmother, and has been kept at home. It is very sticky and always Haunting your grandma, go wherever you go."

Jane said: "Then it's gone?"

The old man paused while flipping through the photos, then nodded lightly: "When your grandmother was sick and was hospitalized, she was not at home, so she wouldn't eat or drink, but after she passed away, she started to eat and disappeared for a month, and then one day When I came back, I got pregnant, gave birth to the only seedling, Ahri, and left."

Jian Mei didn't understand at first: "Where did it go?"

The old man paused, reached out and touched Jane's head, with a gentle voice: "Going to find your grandma."

The curtain inside the house was gently lifted by the wind, and the raccoon cat walked in slowly from the outside, turned around and jumped on the sofa, and finally lay down on the old man's lap slowly.

The old man touched Ali's head and said softly, "Ali, thank you for being with me for your mother for more than ten years."

The raccoon cat flicked its tail lazily.

The old man is getting older, and it is easy to get sleepy. He said that he was looking at the photo album, and he fell asleep on the sofa after a while. Jian Mei didn't disturb him. He brought a blanket from the study to cover him, and he lightened his steps along the way for fear wake people up.

Going to the other side of the window, he continued to look at the album.

This album is very thick, and you can turn to the photos of his parents and his brother later on. First is the photo of his brother when he was a child, and then it is his own. When Jian Mei was looking at it in a trance, he felt the phone vibrate slightly. When I came out, it was Lu Xingliang's reply: [Pay attention to safety on the road]

It turned out that he sent Lu Xingwang a message in the morning that he was going back to the countryside, and this person has only returned until now.

Jane didn't care, but said to him, "I've already arrived. Now, I'm looking at the photo albums in grandpa's study. They're all pictures from my childhood. It's fun, do you want to see them?"

Lu Xingliang was looking at the accessories of the new mecha in the mechanical assembly room, glanced at the news and replied coldly: [I'm busy]

Jian Mei sighed and typed back to him: "Well, when I was a child, my mother didn't know why, she always liked to raise me as a girl, and even let me wear a skirt and take pictures, I wanted to show you.,whatever then."

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Silence over there

then

Lu Xinglang sent him a message: [Completed]