Rebirth: Truth Does Not Dig Coal

Xu Hao flew back to Shanxi early the next morning.

One thing that Xu Hao didn't lie to Yan Ze was that grandma was indeed in the hospital recently, but it was not a sudden hospitalization, but an observational recuperation.As the old people get older, they will go to the hospital for regular physical examinations and stabilize their blood pressure basically every year or a half to prevent any sudden serious illness.

Xu Hao came back in a hurry this time and didn't say hello to his family. Everyone went to the downstairs of the hospital to buy fruit, so he called his aunt to ask which ward on which floor grandma was in.

Aunt Xu Hao was very surprised by Xu Hao's sudden return on the phone, "We are not here now, so the nanny will accompany the old lady, oh, you haven't seen the nanny yet, just call Aunt Wang." After a few words, he reported the ward number to Xu Hao.

Xu Hao took the elevator up, and followed the direction signs to find the location of his grandmother's ward. Through the glass window of the ward, he saw his grandmother wearing a hospital gown sitting cross-legged on the hospital bed, chatting with another old lady in the bed next to her, feeling dizzy. Very good.

Xu Hao pushed the door in with a particularly large fruit basket and shouted, "Grandma, I'm here."

His grandma turned her head, her face was full of surprise, and she shouted at Xu Hao with a loud Shanxi accent, "Ah! Haohao, why are you back?"

Then I turned my head to introduce to other people in the room, the show off on my face was gone, "My eldest grandson came to see me, look, how energetic, huh? How energetic!" Then he turned his head and complained with a straight face Xu Hao, "Your baby comes here as soon as he comes, and what fruit do you buy? Did the money come from the strong wind? Grandma is not happy that you wasted money!"

Xu Hao put the big fruit basket with rows on the side of the hospital bed, and said, "Eating fruit is good for your health, and it's not a waste of money if it's good for your health. Milk, I specially asked them to pack more apples." , don’t you just love apples?”

Looking to the side, I saw an aunt in her 50s sitting next to her grandmother's hospital bed. She had a dark complexion and was fanning herself and the old lady with a cattail fan.

Xu Hao said, "Are you Aunt Wang? You are tired from being in bed here, so go back and rest for a while, I will accompany the old lady, and we will hand over shifts later."

When Aunt Wang heard this, she responded with gratitude.

The old lady on the opposite bed also had her family members come to visit. It was a woman in her 40s with a little girl in her teens. The little girl looked at Xu Hao curiously since Xu Hao entered the room, and the woman praised Xu Hao. "Aunt Zhu, your grandson is so handsome and sensible. He knows how much he loves grandma, so he specially bought you his favorite fruit." Grandma Xu Hao's face that was pretending to be stiff suddenly couldn't hold back, and she turned around cheerfully. Continue to show off to others, and it is better than a thumb, "The baby is good at studying, promising, and came back from studying abroad. His father has already said that this is the number one seedling of my old Xu family!"

Xu Hao hurriedly waved his hands with a smile, "No, no, it's not such an exaggeration."

After exchanging a few polite greetings with the opposite person, the woman with the child suddenly had an idea and said, "Hey, Aunt Zhu, how old is your grandson? Is there a partner? If not, Auntie will introduce you! You see, our Yuanyuan is also a grandson. Little girl, why don’t you really want to have an in-law with Aunt Zhu.” The little girl next to her was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and she immediately blushed when she heard this, and shouted shamefully and angrily, “Mom! Woolen cloth!"

Xu Hao laughed, and said, "Auntie, I'm not in a hurry, I'm starting a business, and I really don't have time to fall in love."

Grandma Xu Hao didn't stay overnight in the hospital, she went home after the drip, and came back the next morning.In the evening, Xu Hao's uncle came to pick them up in a car, and Xu Hao and his grandmother waited at the gate of the hospital.From a distance, I saw a Toyota SUV stop, and a teenager jumped off the passenger seat, raised his hands in Xu Hao's direction and shouted excitedly, "Cousin, cousin!"

Xu Hao was taken aback when he saw his cousin running here, thinking that this kid grew up fast enough.In the past few years, he didn't go around with his relatives very much, so Xu Hao always thought his cousin was the little boy who only reached his chest.When the cousin ran over, Xu Hao raised his hand to make a gesture, and found that the two were only half a head apart, so he was even more surprised, "Why are you so big?"

Unconvinced, the cousin punched Xu Hao, "I'm already in the third grade of junior high school, why do you still treat me like a child?"

Xu Hao strangled his cousin's neck and said, "Okay, I think your wings are stiff, you dare to talk to me like that."

The two played childishly for a while, and were driven home in the car by their uncle. Aunt Xu Hao made a big table of hot dishes at home.The whole family gathered around to eat lively, it felt like celebrating the New Year ahead of schedule.

After dinner, Xu Hao stopped his uncle's intention to get up and see him off, saying that he would just leave it to him to drive grandma home.On the way, grandma suddenly asked Xu Hao, "Why do you think your baby has something on his mind?"

Xu Hao paused for holding the steering wheel, and glanced at the grandma sitting in the back row through the rearview mirror, "Grandma, you know everything."

The grandma hummed in the back seat, "Since you were young, you have written on your face everything that is on your mind. I am your grandma, so I can't tell?"

Xu Hao smiled, feeling helpless.The night fell like black snowflakes outside the car window, together with those unknown thoughts came out of my heart.Having grown up for such a long time, I seldom show the sense of loss on my face, but grandma is grandma, no matter how old Xu Hao grows up, in grandma's eyes, he is still a child.

Xu Hao said, "Grandma, there is something different from what I thought before, and it really annoys me."

Grandma smiled and looked at Xu Hao from behind, "Which little girl is so lucky?"

Xu Hao reacted to what grandma was saying, and couldn't help laughing, "Grandma, that's not the case."

Grandma was noncommittal to Xu Hao's rebuttal, but she was still smiling. Her tone was like touching Xu Hao's head when she was a child, hoping that Xu Hao would grow up. Grandma muttered to herself, "Whoever marries our Haohao in the future will have Good luck."

Xu Hao felt the smell of soap before eating at grandma's house when he was a child came out again. Looking at grandma again, he seemed to be a little older than he remembered. Before grandma could still have a few gray and black hairs mixed in, now he looks, It turned completely white, and the wrinkles on his face were like plowed black fertile soil in a wheat field, but his smiling expression hadn't changed much for decades.

Xu Hao asked, "Grandma, what kind of partner do you think I should find in the future?"

Grandma stroked the wrinkled skin on her hands, and said in a rambling manner, "You dolls have a lot of ideas, how can grandma make decisions for you. Grandma has never been to school and cannot read. I used to talk to your grandpa about it at home. Honey. But grandma knows what kind of person is good. When there was a famine in the past, your grandfather went out with others to dig bark and grass roots. The food was saved and given to the family to support your father and your aunt. Your grandfather was as thin as a cigarette Pole, fainted in the field from hunger at every turn, and refused to say bitterness when he came back. Your father was unlucky, he left early, but the men in our old Xu family are all good. Your father, you, your father, have a similar temper, It's really like it. Grandma doesn't expect you to marry such a beautiful woman in the future. Grandma only hopes that she can find someone who is sincere and considerate of you in the future. She will take care of big and small things with you and won't wrong you. If a person wants to take you as a treasure , the most reluctant thing is in front of you.”

Xu Hao's thoughts drifted away following his grandma's random chatter, and he gradually became a little melancholy.Grandpa Xu Hao passed away due to a mine accident before Xu Hao was born. Xu Hao only saw his grandfather in the photos. He was thin, wearing a Chinese tunic suit and sitting on a stool with a serious face to take pictures.Then I thought about the relationship between my grandparents and the arranged marriage in the early years. Although my grandma didn't say how deep the relationship between the two was, but after so many years of recalling it, it was the grandpa who regarded her as a treasure.Probably no one in this world would be more regretful than grandma for grandpa not being able to catch up with the good time of the Xu family.

Then Xu Hao thought of himself again.All his life, he has always adhered to the attitude of taking one step at a time for his emotional planning.During his studies in the United States, Xu Hao talked about three girlfriends, two of whom broke up peacefully, and one slapped himself when they broke up. The reason she gave was that she felt that Xu Hao hadn't had the intention of raising a dog when they fell in love with her.Xu Hao had nothing to say about this.

Indeed, after being reborn, Xu Hao has almost completely lost his sensuality about love, whether it is a sequela or something.In other words, he lost the ability to touch others' hearts, leaving only a little instinctive sexual impulse, but simply venting his sexual desire would make Xu Hao feel very empty and a waste of time.For Xu Hao, he doesn't need anyone to accompany him, he can live a good life by himself, and he doesn't plan to start a family to accommodate each other.It is no exaggeration to say that sometimes when Xu Hao looks at a woman, he feels no different from looking at a man.

So Xu Hao felt that it didn't matter, falling in love, having sex, getting married, talking when they met, breaking up when they didn't fit, and leaving if it didn't work out, it didn't matter.

Xu Hao sent grandma home, and Aunt Wang came out to pick her up.When he came out of grandma's house, Xu Hao received a message from He Fusheng.The content is that there will be a large-scale auction in two months, and Xu Hao will be asked if he will go.

It's rare that He Fusheng is willing to have contact with Xu Hao again, Xu Hao typed and replied that he would definitely go.

As soon as the message was sent out, another WeChat message from Yan Ze popped up.

Yan Ze: When will you come back?

Xu Hao was lost in thought while holding the phone.

Xu Hao had no reason to think of the day in his previous life when he and Yan Ze went skydiving on the Great Barrier Reef.

Looking down from the plane, the coiled waters on the coast look like a magic glass ball, falling freely at an altitude of nearly 15000 feet for 60 seconds, and the face is deformed by the strong wind. The limit feels like death.

Even though he had undergone very strict high-altitude skydiving training before skydiving, Xu Hao still felt nervous and excited, and his adrenaline soared.Yan Ze obviously felt the same way. On the plane with the hatch wide open, the two of them didn't communicate with each other, but they could tell by looking at each other that they both had extremely similar flames that were on the verge of life's limit.

Then, through the goggles, Xu Hao saw Yan Ze laughing.

The unruly smile appeared extremely flamboyant and dazzling in the windy high altitude.

Yan Ze turned around with the parachute on his back, and slowly and arrogantly stretched out his arms. He looked at Xu Hao with his eyes, with his back to the smoky blue land and ocean, and fell on his back first.

Xu Hao was a step late, and in the torn air, he vaguely heard Yan Ze shouting at the sky and Hongguang, as if he wanted to clean up the air in his lungs, "Fuck, die, die!"