Chapter 408 Chapter 16 New Year Special

Hehe, I'm back.This chapter is the feeling after going home this time. This time when I went home for the New Year, I was more unhappy than happy, and my mood was very complicated. In my dreams, I often dreamed that my teeth were crushed, and then spit them out like melon seeds.But I still gritted my teeth hard until all the bad teeth were shattered.Then he woke up in a panic and touched his lips with his hands, but luckily the teeth were still there. I wanted to ask my grandpa what this dream meant.But when I saw Grandpa, I didn't want to ask any more.Looking at my grandfather's unchanged attire for decades, his wrinkled face like a field that has just been plowed, and his always benevolent and kind eyes, I really can't say a word.

Uncle's new building was finally built, far away from grandpa's old house, so grandpa's old house was not damaged by the new construction.However, Grandpa's old house has become crumbling due to the ups and downs of the past few months. It seems that as long as someone passes by, the old house will collapse like tofu after a night. .In this way, I couldn't help but feel a little worried about my grandfather still living there. Due to the shortage of tickets, I didn't get a ticket to go home, so I stood on the train for a full sixteen hours.But I just got home, and I can't wait to go to my grandpa's house.

My feet were not stable in my own home, so I took my mother to go to grandpa's house to see together. Many dear readers have made requests, saying that they want me to help grandpa do the math or other things when I get home.But when I saw my grandpa, I couldn't say a word, only called "Grandpa" bluntly and not so enthusiastically.Just like my grandpa’s old house that I was thinking about outside, I always thought that I would have all kinds of feelings and sighs after entering my grandpa’s house, but when I really walked outside my grandpa’s house, I didn’t even want to step in. , but wanted to bypass this old building and go directly to his uncle's strange new building.

When I used to come to grandpa's house, as long as my brother or I yelled "Grandpa" on the ground, grandpa's laughter would immediately resound in the old house, and then his figure would appear at the door, waiting for us to enter with a smile. This time I called out several times, expecting him to show up in the same way.But his shadow was long gone.Mom went in and came out and told me that Grandpa wasn't there, maybe in Uncle's new building.This was the first blow that reality gave me.Maybe this is nothing in the eyes of others, but to me, it means some kind of major change, some kind of strong loss.

I stepped into the gate and glanced at the room where my grandfather used to warm up by the fire. There was no red light from the flames, let alone the sound of crackling firewood.So, I couldn't bear to go into the back room again, to see the deserted stove, to see the tables and chairs covered with a thin layer of dust without even thinking about it, and I didn't even want to see the bed hanging on the wall away from grandpa. The portrait of the distant grandma. In this way, I just stepped into Grandpa's house, stayed for less than ten seconds, and then hurried out.This is the first time I stepped into my grandfather's house after returning home this time, and it is also the last time before returning to Beijing.Although I went to Huamei Village again on the second day of the Lunar New Year, I never stepped into the old house that started to decay.

My mother told me that this year, Huamei Village lost four old people, and I have never seen so many old people die in one year.Immediately, I felt infinite emotion in my heart. When I walked to my uncle's house, I hurriedly asked where my grandpa was.Uncle said he should be in the old house. Seeing the expression on my face, my mother hurriedly said, don't worry, he may have gone to sit in another house, and he will come to my uncle's new building when he hears the sound of firecrackers. Because it was the first time I entered my uncle's new building, I let off a set of firecrackers before entering the door.This firecracker is a blessing to my uncle's new house, but if my grandfather's old house has a pair of ears, what does this series of firecrackers mean to it?decline?Alienated?change?or something else?

Sure enough, as mother said, after a while, grandpa appeared with a slightly hunched body.Pushing open the cold iron door, Grandpa smiled at me happily but a little bit shyly, and said, "Liangzi is back? I heard the sound of firecrackers here, so I guessed that you are back." The temperature was very low and the humidity was heavy that day. I sat shivering by the fire.When grandpa pushed the door open, a gust of cold wind entered and swept across my face abruptly.Uncle immediately shouted to Grandpa: "Come in quickly, and close the door! It's already cold in the room."

I remembered that when I was in my grandfather's old house a few years ago, my grandfather once pointed to the roof of the old house and said proudly: "Every beam of this roof was picked from the Dongting Lake with my shoulders." Dongting Lake to Huamei Village is more than a hundred miles away.There are so many wooden beams on the roof, all of which are thick, long and straight, and it is inconceivable that they were transported here by one person's shoulders. Just when I was about to marvel, my aunt sneered and said: "Yes, your old man has made great achievements! But now it is not worth boasting, and everyone has started to build buildings."

Grandpa doesn't remember these things like I do, he always looks cheerful.He will not be sad about the old house like I am, because he will be happy that his uncle has moved into the new building.Which father doesn't want his son's life to be better than his own?However, maybe when a person is lying on the bed in the old house, or squatting by the fire in the old house, he will turn out the past page by page and reminisce.Maybe only then will he feel some sentimentality, like light smoke on a firewood, curling up. After having lunch at my uncle's house, suddenly a thunderclap rolled across the sky.

Grandpa looked at the gloomy weather outside and said, "Lei Dadong, nine out of ten cowpens are empty." After hearing this, I immediately asked as before: "Grandpa, what do you mean by that?" Mom took the words from Grandpa and said: "It means that if there is thunder in winter, farming will be very hard in the coming year. The physical work of cattle is very heavy. So nine out of ten cowpens will be empty." Grandpa nodded and smiled, and said gently, "But fortunately, it's spring now." Yes, although the weather is still very wet and cold, but I already feel that spring is coming.Especially when I left Huamei, on the hill between Huamei Village and Wentian Village, looking back, my grandfather's old house looked even lower, while my uncle's new house stood proudly, a frost-like winter grass, a Like mushrooms after rain.The sadness in my heart spread out like boiling water vapor, scalding every nerve in me.

I think, I still want to finish telling the story of grandpa...