Chapter 10 Section IX

At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, I received a call from a friend I hadn't seen for many years, saying that he had arrived at the lotus pond in Changshan Village and asked me to pick him up. I left early and rushed home.Mom and Dad stayed in Thrushcross Village where Grandpa lived, had dinner before coming back. In the evening, my mother brought me a message-the man came to see grandpa again shortly after I left. I hurriedly inquired about the specific situation. My mother said that when my uncle saw the man coming, he was very angry and tried every means to drive him away, but he just refused to leave.Grandpa didn't want to answer these things. Although he didn't drive him away, he didn't see him either.Later, when my uncle was threatening the man, he accidentally hurt his head, and the man acted badly, sitting outside the door, pretending to cry, and attracting other people to watch.Grandpa had to come out to make a rescue.

"It's really helpless to meet such a rascal." Dad interjected from the side. Mom said that grandpa told the man that it is not difficult to get the dog to bite back, as long as he finds the leftover dog bone, breaks off a dog tooth from the upper jaw and the lower jaw, and then aligns it with the wound it bitten before. Use the dog's teeth to cut open the wound again according to the original marks, only to see blood. I finally understood what Grandpa meant when he said "you just have to let it bite back". Dad disdainfully said: "This will make him heal so many pimples on his body? I don't believe it. In my opinion, your grandfather is afraid that the man will be entangled until the New Year, so he made up a lie to perfuse him. Let the dog bite back, Does that count as letting it bite back?"

Mom said that the man thanked him thousands of times and finally left. "Would that work?" I wasn't quite convinced either. Mom said, we also asked your grandpa. "How did he say?" "Your grandpa's attitude is unclear. He just said lightly that it is not an easy thing to cut open the healed wound with dog teeth and see blood. Also, dog bones may not be found." Speaking of this, my mother unconsciously talked about how well-behaved the second grandma's dog was, and how bitter the second grandma was before.In order to send her son to college, the second grandmother borrowed money everywhere, saving money on everything.My son didn't have a good job after graduating from university, and my second grandmother was worried day and night.Finally, her son is gradually getting better outside, and her eyes can't see clearly again.

Mom couldn't stop talking about things like this. Fortunately, a person came in at this time.Before I had time to turn my head to look at her, she said, "Liang, you must spend time with your grandpa when you come back this time. His days are numbered." From the sound, I knew that the person who came was the daughter-in-law of the second grandma. I called her "Aunt Wei".Aunt Wei is from her mother's natal family, and it was her mother who acted as a matchmaker to introduce her to marry the second grandma's son.Because of this relationship, she has an extraordinary relationship with my mother, she speaks straightforwardly, and never hides it.

Seeing her coming, mother invited her to sit down and made tea for her. "If it's tea leaves, I won't drink it. If you have tea with sugar water, give me a cup." She sat down opposite me as she spoke. "Have you noticed the jujube tree in front of your grandfather's house? You spent most of your time in Thrushcross when you were a child. Before I was in technical secondary school, I often went to your grandpa's house. I remember that jujube tree." She has read medical technical secondary school.At that time, the technical secondary school was very popular and assigned work, and her family had a big banquet for this.When I was a child, I followed my grandfather to her school entrance banquet.

"I noticed it. The tree is old." I knew what she was going to say next, because I was a little absent-minded about what Father Yan said.But what she said next lifted my spirits. "That's no ordinary tree," she said.