"What are you doing renovating the house? I don't know how many more years I have left, so don't waste your money. When the old man leaves, no one will live in this old yard." Xu Dongru refused without even thinking about it.
Yes, he always has this attitude as long as he spends his children's money.
Xu Qingzhi knew that grandpa cared about money.
She said: "It won't cost much to renovate, and it will be convenient to install a bathroom in your room."
"I won't do it. I live comfortably in this old house." Xu Dongru wiped the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief. It has been cold recently, and his eyes tend to shed tears.
Xu Qingzhi could only give up the idea of renovating the house temporarily. Many people have feelings for old houses. Even if they are dilapidated, they still feel comfortable living there.
It was still early before her grandpa had an accident in her previous life, so she made some insinuations and waited for her grandpa to be willing before she thought of renovating the house.
"Okay, don't turn it over yet." She responded to her grandfather's words and walked around the house. She saw that the jar of chrysanthemums was not moved much, and the jar of honey seemed to be untouched.
She didn't ask why her grandpa didn't drink often, so she filled the water jar with a kettle and put it on the stove to boil.
There was only a blackened red plastic cup in the room, and a ceramic cup with several corners knocked off, with a red five-pointed star on the white cup surface.
She took a basin, fetched hot water from next to the stove, and mixed some cold water to wash the cups.
Xu Dongru was sitting at the door and didn't hear it at first. He was very hard of hearing sometimes as he got older. When he heard the sound of water, he walked into the house and saw that his granddaughter was washing a cup, and the water in the basin was wet.
Hei, with a sneer on his face, said quickly: "Don't do it. It's such a cold day. If your sleeves get wet, you'll get a fever and a cold. When you were a kid, you would get a fever when you played with water. One time, the fever didn't go away for three days.
Your grandma and I are both afraid that you will burn out your brain."
Xu Dongru directly took all the pots away.
Xu Qingzhi was washing the cup. His hands were full of bubbles in the air. He smiled helplessly and said, "Grandpa, I have grown up and am no longer a child."
Xu Dongru held the basin and looked at the person in front of him who was already a little taller than him, "In grandpa's eyes, you will always be a child. Go, go, go out, grandpa washes himself."
Xu Qingzhi raised her bubble hand and said, "Grandpa, you have to let me clean my hands."
The old man was stunned, and Xu Qingzhi reached out to take the basin back, continued to wash it, and finished washing it twice.
Xu Dongru wanted to say something more, but Xu Qingzhi chased him out: "Grandpa, go and sit at the door while I wash the cup and make you some honey chrysanthemum tea. Chrysanthemum tea is good for your eyes. You can make a cup of it every day and drink it.
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Xu Dongru's eyes felt hot, and he had cried a lot in the past two days, which made his eyes even more uncomfortable. He felt a lump in his throat and said, "Okay."
He walked out, turned his back to his granddaughter, sat on a chair, took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of his eyes. The old lady passed away, and he was the only one in the house, so he had to live with his bad eyesight.
I don’t want to live with my son, and partly because I’m afraid that my daughter-in-law will dislike me for not being hygienic in my old age.
But now that he is old, he is just living one day at a time, and he has no time to think about cleaning. He can clean up the inside and outside of the house so that he can have a shelter from wind and rain.
In the past, when Qingzhi was a child, she always slept between him and the old lady, refusing to go to bed by herself.
At that moment, he said, you are too young to dislike grandpa now, but when you grow up, you will know that you will dislike grandpa and grandma.
The little boy Qingzhi puffed up his face and pursed his lips and said: "I will never dislike my grandma and grandpa, even less when I grow up."
Both he and the old lady loved to play with the little children like this, and the little ones at home all said the same thing.
But I just know that He Zijun really doesn’t dislike him.
Last time, the eldest grandson came back to see him with his grandson-in-law. He stayed for a few minutes and then left, saying that the room smelled like urine.
The toilet in the old house was at the back. It was inconvenient to go to the toilet at night, so he put a urine bucket in the room.
Because of these words, he later put the urine bucket in the back and stopped using it. He would get up at night and go to the back. But it was too inconvenient, so he used the urine bucket again.
"Grandpa, the honey and chrysanthemum tea is ready. Here it is for you. I mixed it with some cold water. It may still be a bit hot. Be careful when you drink it."
The old man came out of his memories and looked at the caring granddaughter in front of him. He felt very warm. There is no one better than his sweet granddaughter in the world, not even ten sons can compare to her.
He took the cup and sighed: "Grandpa is getting old, and every day passes. The house is a little dirty, so don't dislike grandpa."
Xu Qingzhi's face was serious: "Grandpa, next time you let me hear such words, I will be angry and ignore you."
"Okay, okay, no more." The old man agreed with a smile.
At this time, a familiar voice came from the door.
"Oh, this is not frivolous. I came to see your grandpa." Fu Guiying walked in, with Xu Fuwen beside her.
Although Xu Qingzhi didn't like his second aunt, he was still polite, "Second uncle, second aunt."
Xu Fuwen, with metal-framed eyes and a usual serious face, nodded.
Xu Dongru was not very happy when she thought about what happened that day, and asked: "What are you doing here?"
Xu Fuwen's clinic is free today. My wife had been making noises about going to the third brother's house to help, so I asked my father to go and say something.
Today I heard that the third brother's family was talking about permanent recruitment. I didn't ask her to go. I felt unhappy and insisted on asking him to come with me. Then I talked to the old man.
Among the three brothers, he made the most money in the past. He recently gave his son a loan to buy a house in Kyoto. He has very little savings left and his son still wants him to continue to help. Guiying also has ideas to earn more.
Right now, Qingzhi is here, and he can't say those words no matter what, and he can't lose face in front of the juniors.
Xu Fuwen said: "Dad, Guiying and I just came to see you."
Xu Dongru snorted, his second son would come to see him sometimes, but his second daughter-in-law would not come at other times except when the whole family is having dinner together.
He knew it in his heart, so he didn't believe anything he said to come to see him.
Fu Guiying stretched out her hand and tugged on his clothes, signaling for him to say something. Seeing that he remained silent for a long time, she simply said to herself: "Dad, didn't you tell Fu Qiang before that he wanted me to go to his house to help pick vegetables? Fu Qiang also kept saying
You didn’t come to call me. I heard someone say today that Fuqiang is recruiting permanent employees, the salary is very high, and you can get two days off a week.”
Xu Dongru had guessed that this was the case. After his second son told him about it last time, he simply avoided going to Fu Qiang's place and went fishing in the reservoir every day. Thinking that if his second son mentioned this matter again, he would say that he had no time. He said unhappily: "Why don't you go to Fuqiang and ask an old man like me? I've been busy fishing recently and don't have the time to care about your affairs."