Liu Ying angrily blamed: "If you don't take the children back, how could the children want to go?! It's not all your fault!"
"Yes, yes." Cheng Tianyuan's face was low and he said softly: "It is true that there are reasons for me, but I really don't want to go back. Mom, if Lingling hadn't bought so much land in the village, she would have to go back from time to time.
Once or twice, I don’t want to go back even once.”
Liu Ying glared and scolded: "You still have the nerve to say that?! After all, that is where you were born and raised!"
"Yes." Cheng Tianyuan nodded: "I have never denied that I am from Chengjia Village, and I have not forgotten that Chengjia Village is my hometown. Over the years, the village has built bridges and roads, built nursing homes and kindergartens. As long as the villagers speak,
I will donate money to it. I never shirk the construction of my hometown, and I will use as much strength as I can. But I am also a little upset and tired, do you know?"
Liu Ying turned away her face and stopped talking.
Cheng Tianyuan lowered his voice: "Whether it is the old neighbors or fellow villagers in the village, they think that our economy is better than theirs, and they take it for granted that we pay for anything in the village. Not only that, the same is true for your mother's family.
, every time I call, I either want to borrow money or ask for some expensive electrical appliances."
Liu Ying dodged her eyes and hesitated: "Then we are indeed much better than them... Shouldn't we help the fellow villagers?"
"It should." Cheng Tianyuan nodded firmly: "I think it should, but it shouldn't be taken for granted. Mom, only one of your old relatives has repaid the money they borrowed, and the others have no contact after borrowing the money. I
I didn’t ask for money from them, but they said outside that I had turned my back on them after making a lot of money. Mom, I come from a rural area. I never think that rural areas are bad, nor do I think Chengjia Village is bad. It’s just that we have broken away.
Once you get there, you should gradually integrate into the new environment and get new concepts and ideas."
"You have forgotten your roots!" Liu Ying scolded: "Are you blaming my old relatives for dragging you down? Is that right?"
Cheng Tianyuan sighed softly: "It's not a burden, I just feel a little annoyed. Mom, Lingling and I are almost independent financially. She pays for most of Xinyuan's expenses inside and outside. I borrowed money from old relatives.
, Lingling always turned a blind eye and pretended not to know. I used to be willing to borrow money, but they thought I was very rich. They didn't want to pay back the money, but they said I was a traitor, and then they cut off contact. Many times.
From now on, I don’t really want to go back.”
"If you don't go back yourself, even your children won't recognize Chengjia Village!" Liu Ying said angrily: "Isn't it good to go back once or twice during the New Year and festivals to pay homage to the ancestors and the Lord of the Land? I have told you several times
Come back, you pretend not to hear me every time!"
Cheng Tianyuan said solemnly: "It's me who doesn't want to go back. I don't want to go. The children are so unfamiliar with it, how could they take the initiative to go there? Yes, this is indeed my fault."
"Huh!" Liu Ying turned away angrily.
Cheng Tianyuan leaned against the wall and whispered: "Mom, the village has built bridges and roads over the years, including building a small park on the mountain. Although I can't contribute, I still insist on paying. In the past twenty or thirty years, the village has
Our family has participated in projects of all sizes, with nearly tens of millions of dollars invested. I am from Chengjia Village, and I try my best to help my hometown build, so I shouldn’t forget my roots, right?"
Liu Ying stared suspiciously and asked: "What? Tens of millions? Yes - there are so many?"
"Yes." Cheng Tianyuan replied: "I keep accounts every time. When the old village chief was here, I paid several times to support the construction of my hometown. I was familiar with him, and the money I paid at that time was not much, so I
I didn't remember it. Later, when we moved to the Imperial Capital, we could only send money there every time. I had a card specifically used to send money to my hometown, and it totaled more than 8 million. When we were building a nursing home,
I paid 1.5 million, and the others were more than 10, 200,000, and occasionally 400,000 to 500,000. Calculated more than 20 years ago, it was close to 10,000,000."
Liu Ying was stunned and hesitated: "...so many? Why didn't you tell me?"
Cheng Tianyuan explained: "When we built the nursing home, I told you, but I didn't tell you the specific amount. You told me to pay more if you could, and I agreed. I originally decided to donate one million. Lingling was also present at the time.
She said that building a nursing home was a good thing, and she added another five hundred thousand to it. Others were to build bridges and roads, and the latest one was to build a small park on the mountainside. I didn't think it was necessary to tell you everything, so I didn't mention it in detail."
"So that's a lot of money." Liu Ying blinked a few times and whispered: "It's all good things. Just do it if you can. You have helped a lot in the construction of your hometown. People will not say that you have forgotten your roots."
Cheng Tianyuan asked funnyly: "Didn't you just say that I forgot my roots?"
Liu Ying hesitated: "That's because you don't often take your children back! The children don't know where their ancestral home is or what their hometown looks like."
"They don't know if they don't know." Cheng Tianyuan replied: "They grew up in the imperial capital and have lived in the prosperous center of the imperial capital since they can remember. In their hearts, they think the imperial capital is their hometown. Mom, they don't even recognize it.
If you know Chengjia Village, why do you need to force them?"
"That's not right!" Liu Ying lectured: "Their roots are in their hometown, and they were bred from Chengjia Village! You should teach them to recognize their hometown and take them to worship their ancestors from time to time."
Cheng Tianyuan sighed softly and whispered: "The Imperial Capital and Rongcheng are too far away. Every time I go back to worship during the Qingming Festival and Double Ninth Festival, the children either have to go to school or go to work, and there is no time to go back and forth in a day. You are old,
It’s not easy to rush around and take planes. Lingling is too busy, so she rushes there and back several times, as if she’s rushing. You are in the Imperial Capital, and the children are also in the Imperial Capital. We can’t even run away, so we can only rush.
Ling stayed. I was always alone when I ran around. I knew fewer and fewer people in the village. The elders of the older generation passed away one after another. Most of my peers went out. I hardly recognized any of the young people. I kept going.
Well, I find it too boring myself."
"So you simply didn't go!" Liu Ying was still angry: "You didn't go alone, and you didn't let the children go either!"
Cheng Tianyuan shook his head helplessly: "I don't want to go myself, how can I lead several children back."
Liu Ying scolded: "I have been angry about this! We moved away, and then left like this? How can it be possible! I don't want my hometown anymore? I really won't go back in the future? When I die, I will have to be buried.
Go back to Chengjia Village. Is it possible that you and the children won’t pay homage to me and your damn dad in the future?”
"Mom!" Cheng Tianyuan frowned and whispered: "Don't talk nonsense, this matter is still far away, there is no rush to arrange it."