The city is still very beautiful under the sunset. The glass curtain walls of high-rise buildings reflect the red sun. Occasionally, you can enjoy a beam of sunlight cast between two buildings. In addition, there are clean and tidy roads and driving routes that crisscross the city.
Cars on top.
What a beautiful city sunset picture.
But this picture of the southern suburbs of the metropolis is not perfect. There is one flaw: a dilapidated house and a small yard of only thirty square meters!
There are towering high-rise buildings all around, and the people coming in and out are brightly dressed urban men and women, chatting about romance, doing business that can easily reach hundreds of millions, and there are cars of all sizes driving on the spacious road next to it. p>
As for this house, not to mention its backward style, it also looks very shabby because it has not been renovated for a long time. It should be in the style of an ancient village in the wild, rather than being located in a metropolis where land is precious and surrounded by high-rise buildings. It looks like
Wearing slippers, stuffing a whole steak into your mouth with chopsticks, or eating hot dry noodles with ketchup and tomato sauce.
The style of painting is so inconsistent.
And this style of painting has its own term: nail house!
Chiba Makoto was not in a hurry to enter the house, but walked around and asked. The neighbors had a bad impression of the owner, and they all commented on him as a stubborn old woman.
It is said that in order to demolish this house in the past, the developer tried every means and provided more than ten plans for the old woman to choose from, but she didn't even look at them and directly refused: "I will not move away.
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At first, everyone thought she wanted to raise the price on the ground, but one year passed, two years passed, three years passed... The old neighbors moved out one after another, the old houses began to be demolished, and the piles of rubble were driven into the ground by construction machinery.
, dig foundations, build buildings... until all high-rise buildings are completed and sold.
The old woman still lives in her old house, and has never told anyone that she has figured out how to sell the house. People then understand that she is not just raising the price, but really does not want to move, so the previous greedy
'The label was removed and replaced by 'silly'.
No one knows why she is guarding that old house. She lives alone in the old house. No one knows when she dies. She has to do everything by herself. She needs to exchange this house for a lot of money to live in a clean and bright place.
Isn’t there a nursing home where there are still people taking care of it that are not good?
No one can understand, let alone what she thinks, because all the old neighbors have moved away, and only a few live nearby, while the new neighbors are mostly young people who just work.
They have exhausted their minds. They may not know who is facing the door, and they are even less interested in learning about the situation of this old house.
After Chiba Cheng bought a large bag of things, the owner of a nearby convenience store mentioned the old woman's situation and said: "That old woman used to be taciturn, but recently she has a smile on her face when she comes to buy things.
And I buy a lot more things than before.
I think it’s a relative from my hometown who came here. It’s quite pitiful to be alone, so everyone generally doesn’t care much about her stubbornness..."
The convenience store owner kept talking about the old woman's "bad things". She didn't know how to pay electronically. She often forgot to weigh herself and went to the cashier to pay. She also paid with banknotes wrapped in a handkerchief. She had to change the money repeatedly.
Count several times... The time she spends alone can allow several people to complete the checkout.
After a round of visits and investigations, Chiba Makoto probably knew something about the old woman. Judging from the doubled amount of ingredients he purchased, he should have taken in the red Standelian Redel, so he could go directly.
Chiba Cheng carried the food he bought from the convenience store to the dilapidated house that was incompatible with the metropolis. He looked around and couldn't find the electronic doorbell. He could only knock on the old wooden door with his hand.
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After knocking twice, I saw the door of the house opened through the courtyard wall made of low wooden boards. An old woman with a smile on her face came out with a stooped back and said in a soft voice as she walked:
"Coming, coming!"
'Creak!'
The wooden door opened from the inside, and the old woman was stunned for a moment when she saw Qianye Cheng, and asked doubtfully: "Are you..."
"Hello, mother-in-law, I am a volunteer from the community and I am here to visit you." Chiba Cheng raised the large bag of fruits and vegetables in his hand and showed it to the old woman.
"Oh, please come in!" The old woman didn't know whether she understood or not, but she brought Chiba Makoto in anyway. When she walked towards the house, she said apologetically: "I am the only one living there. I am old and dim, and I don't have the energy to clean."
, so the house is quite messy."
"It's okay, mother-in-law, I'm just here to help you."
"No, no, I don't need help. Just chat with me. No one has been here for a long time." The old woman said and opened the door. Chiba Cheng glanced around the house. It was clean and tidy, even the tatami was wiped spotless.
, has nothing to do with clutter.
The old woman walked into the inner room and walked out tremblingly with a can of tea. Chiba Makoto, who was sitting on the tatami, quickly got up, helped the old woman make tea, and said: "Thank you, mother-in-law!"
"I'm the one who should say thank you. You, oh, volunteers, taught me how to use these electrical appliances..." The old woman was talking nonchalantly. People who came occasionally told her what electrical appliances to use to make her happy.
Life becomes better, it sounds like a salesman.
Chiba Cheng held the tea cup and looked around at this small room, which was only more than ten square meters. All the furnishings were very shabby. There was also a stove in the room with a kettle on it. It should also be the place where the old lady cooked and ate.
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The only electrical appliance in the house is a light bulb, and other modern products such as computers and smart sweeping robots are nowhere to be seen. When you are inside, it feels like you are in the last century, not the early 21st century with advanced technology.
The wooden doors seem to be separated by decades.
I didn't feel anything unusual. Obviously Redel was not here. Chiba Cheng was also ready to leave. As soon as he stood up, he saw a photo enshrined in the corner of the table, with two white candles burning quietly next to it. This was
It is a memorial method that has almost been forgotten by modern people.
The old woman noticed Qianye Cheng's gaze, and the smile on her face became much smaller, and said: "This is my old man, he has passed away... Look at my memory, I have forgotten how long it has been, I am old, I am old, my memory is also bad
Not good."
Well, even if the old lady didn’t say anything, Chiba Cheng would have thought he was her son.
The person in the photo is actually too young. He has black hair and a handsome face. He looks like he is in his forties or fifties, while the old woman is almost seventy years old.
A photo silently tells the story of how time flies and we are already in our twilight years.