Self-guided daily life after rebirth

There was a screeching sound.

Then everything was silent.

The voices of people boiling in the small courtyard fell silent for a strange moment, and then, more than a dozen eyes looked at the direction of the gate from the courtyard.

Like a thousand arrows piercing the heart...or a public execution.

Su Tong, bathed in the puzzled eyes of the distant elders, instantly experienced the feeling of social death.

But fortunately, he has been trained by the eldest lady for so long, even if he faces the gaze of a lot of elders, he will not be as embarrassed as before-so no matter what, he still bites the bullet and smiles, and walks towards the edge of the crowd The old man in the old-fashioned black padded jacket shouted:

"Grandpa, let's go home for dinner."

The wonderful silence was broken, and the silent crowd became noisy and even boiled again.

And the old man standing next to the men with his hands in his hands looked at Su Tong and then at the granddaughter who was following him, with a fleeting expression of surprise on his face, he lowered his head and whispered something to the crowd beside him, Then he walked slowly amidst the booing.

"Come back for the New Year?" The old man asked Su Tong with a simple and honest smile, "Did your father bring you two back?"

Su Tong was quite flattered, so he nodded and answered honestly:

"Yes, my dad brought me back with... and Tongtong, and he is probably cooking at home now."

"Well, let's go back then."

After the old man finished speaking, he didn't care about the two of them, he just walked away calmly.

The young couple at the back looked at each other, couldn't help laughing at the same time, and then followed the old man.

Come back home.

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Regardless of how old the old man is, he is a good hand at tending the crops, his body is strong and his feet are agile, especially now that he is in a good mood, and he walks like a tiger.

So the young couple who followed were a little bit behind... By the time the two of them arrived home, the old man had already met Lao Su Tongma.

But there was no big reaction.

They just called quietly, greeted each other, looked at each other, and nodded, and then the old man went into the kitchen silently to help the old lady cook.

Old Su was used to it, and took the rooster that had been killed and bled to shed its feathers by the peach tree outside the gate.

A pot of hot water, the little rooster threw it in, first scalded it for a while, and then carefully plucked the layer of colorful feathers while it was hot.

Su Tong saw that everyone else was busy cooking and he and the eldest lady were fishing, and his conscience was disturbed, so he took the initiative to get up and go to his mother to take the task.

The task is to light the fire.

In order to protect the environment, later generations banned the continued use of farmhouse stoves on a large scale, so this feature of the old era has gradually disappeared in the long history.

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with a modern, neat and beautiful gas or electric appliance instead of an earthen stove that tends to hide dirt and mess - it's just that some fun memories from childhood have become memories after all.

Su Tong still remembers that she lived in her hometown for a long time when she was a child. At that time, she was called Su Tong... and her grandparents were still alive at that time, and the two old people loved her very much. Sometimes they would go to the earthen stove when cooking. Bury a sweet potato in plant ashes, put a handful of peanuts, or simply roast some freshly grouted young wheat.

The sweet potatoes are soft and sweet, the peanuts are crunchy, and the freshly picked wheat has a unique aroma of being roasted by flames.

All so unforgettable.

There is also rice steamed from an earthen stove.

What is used is the new rice harvested in autumn, what is burned is cotton branches, and what is wafted is the unique fragrance of flame and rice.

Just weird.

It is obviously the same rice and the same water, but the rice that can be steamed in a rice cooker is delicious without an earthen stove.

This in the end is why?

Su Tong stared at the curling white smoke rising from the chimney on the top of the kitchen.

And a gentle call suddenly came from the ear:

"Tongtong! Come here!"

Su Tong looked over subconsciously, and saw an old lady wearing an apron not far away waving to her kindly.

I don't know what it is for.

Su Tong was puzzled, but still walked over obediently, followed the mysterious old lady, and entered the second elder's room.

The room of the elderly can be said to be clean but not simple. There are a lot of sundries on the table and beside the bed, but it looks quite tidy.

Su Tong watched the old lady enter the room, opened the closet, fumbled carefully along the mezzanine, and finally took out an emerald green bracelet.

The old man stared at the bracelet with nostalgia on his face, and after looking at it for a while, he remembered something, and quickly took out a white cloth from the drawer of the table next to him, and wiped the bracelet carefully inside and out.

Although the bracelet was originally clean and spotless.

Then the smiling old lady caressed the jade bracelet and whispered to Su Tong:

"Tongtong, this bracelet was handed over to me by your old lady before I married your grandfather...Now I give it to you, you have to cherish it."

Then before the stunned Su Tong could say anything, the old lady grabbed her arm and gently put the jade bracelet on her wrist.

"Very good, it fits very well, Tongtong, you wear it very beautifully."

The old man nodded in satisfaction and satisfaction, then raised his hand to touch Su Tong's head, his eyes were full of warmth and kindness:

"This is your dowry from grandma, girl."

[to be continued]

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Skirt: 9④⑤9③1705

Chapter 325 The Old Man

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"dowry?"

Su Tong was stunned, subconsciously rubbing the green bracelet on her wrist.

She doesn't know much about jewelry, but she just thinks that the bracelet has a warm and delicate texture, like suet, with a transparent color, as beautiful as a ball of solidified spring water.

Well, she really can't tell.

She just instinctively felt...

Will it be expensive?

Mostly it is for the consideration of aesthetic factors, or it is a product born because of the aesthetic system from the beginning to the end - the so-called jewelry is basically more beautiful and more expensive, so anyone with a certain aesthetic ability can easily distinguish cheap products from Luxury.

Not to mention things like jade bracelets.

It was treasured in the interlayer of the closet, hidden under a thick stack of clothes, and was taken out by the old lady with such care, and worn on her wrist as if performing some kind of ceremony...

No matter how stupid Su Tong is, she can guess that this bracelet is definitely worth a lot.

So my heart became more and more disturbed, and I couldn't help but want to take off the bracelet and give it back to the old lady:

"Dowry... I don't need this kind of dowry, grandma, old... Dad prepared a dowry for me."

But the old lady held her hand, smiled and shook her head slowly:

"Accept it girl, the dowry your father prepared for you was given to you by him, this bracelet has nothing to do with him, it's just prepared for you by grandma..."

The old lady sighed abruptly, stretched out her hand to gently stroke her long hair, and then sighed:

"Actually, this bracelet was originally intended for Qinglan. When the old lady gave it to me, she told me that when I got old, I would give it to the next mistress of the Su family... But your mother had an accident... ..."

The old lady was talking about Su Tong's biological mother - that gentle, quiet and intelligent woman.

But she passed away not long after giving birth to Gardenia, so it is probably impossible to wait for the old lady to pass on the bracelet, right?

Su Tong looked up at the old lady.

The old lady also looked at her gently, her short silver hair shone brightly under the sunlight coming in from the bedroom window.

Against the light, Su Tong saw the gullies on the old man's face eroded by time, age spots eroded by time, sagging skin and cloudy eyes.

The sun is bright and clear, illuminating a piece of dust that is flying up and down.

And the smile on the old lady's face was gentle and plain, with the easy-going after three thousand miles of wind and moon.

She is no longer young.

When she was young, she was also a well-known beauty in ten miles and eight villages. After she married, she was also a good hand in doing housework and taking care of the crops. During the busy farming season, it was not a problem to carry the scorching sun and even turn the shaft to cut wheat.

But now I feel more and more powerless.

Can't do heavy work, can't stay up late, and even eat carefully, not greasy or stimulating, otherwise the old stomach that has served for many years may not be able to stand the protest.

"I'm old, I won't give you this bracelet..."

Su Tong heard the old man whisper.

It's like some kind of announcement, and it's like a soul that has fought against time for most of its life... the final surrender.

The old lady gently picked up a strand of the girl's black hair with her hands, and looked at the silky black long hair with regret in her eyes.Then he groped to pick off a strand of pale hair that had fallen from his shoulders, picked one from the girl's strand of black strands, and placed them side by side in the palm of his hand.

"Look." She said softly with a smile, "your grandma and my hair have already finished graying long ago. It's dry and withered, and it's not as good as your girl's hair... just like fine silk, smooth and soft to the touch. greasy."

As the old lady said, she raised her head and looked up at Su Tong, who was half a head taller than her, with a slightly lonely expression, and said in a low voice:

"Old, old, a few years ago I was obviously not convinced by my old age, I always thought that I, an old woman, can do what you young people can do, and it may not be worse than you... But these two years I have to obey I'm old, although I'm in good health, but I just feel that I don't understand you more and more...Your young people's world is gone."

She carefully took out a smartphone from the pocket of the down jacket, then shook her head again:

"It's like this smart phone...Girl, how fun is this little cube? How do you feel that many young people in our village like it... Isn't the mobile phone very useful if you can make a phone call?"

"I am illiterate, but your grandfather is literate. He is a top student, but he can't understand this smartphone. Last time your grandfather's mobile phone didn't know what happened during the day and he couldn't hear the sound when calling. He was anxious for a long time and didn't figure it out. , In the end, I found the uncle of your Uncle Lin’s family to solve it, saying that the speaker or something was broken, and told your grandfather about mobile phones for a long time... I couldn’t understand it either.”

"There is also the Internet. It is said on TV that children should not be addicted to the Internet, but what is the Internet and what is so good about it? Why do children like the Internet so much..."

The old man asked Su Tong with a confused face.

But it seems to be talking to himself.

And Su Tong didn't know how to answer.

No one can explain clearly to the monkey what the three laws of Newton's mechanics are, and of course no one can tell the old man in front of him who has been busy serving the crops, raising children and doing housework for the first half of his life why smartphones are so fun and what the Internet is.

There are many rural old people like old ladies in this world.

They don’t know what Glory of Kings is, they don’t know what League of Legends is, they haven’t experienced life in a big city, and they don’t understand why some people are willing to sell their kidneys in exchange for a smartphone.

Their lives seem extremely boring to the younger generation, as bland as boiled water, ordinary and moderate.

Times have changed!Young people like to say that.

Correct.

Because the times have changed, now is the information age, the Internet age, and the entertainment age, and those who cannot keep up with the changes of the times will naturally be eliminated.

Let me ask, how can an elderly person who can’t even use a smartphone survive in the future world full of QR code network payment WeChat official accounts?

Maybe.

It's just extremely difficult, extremely painful, extremely...incompatible with this increasingly strange world.

Perhaps the furthest distance in this world is not life and death, nor birds and fish, but... the rural old man holding a key-press elderly phone standing at the end, and the young man holding the latest smart phone lying there head.

The same home, separated by a wall, is like two worlds.

Su Tong thought silently and looked at the old lady silently.

But the old lady was still smiling.

"Tongtong, don't dislike this old-fashioned bracelet," the old man persuaded softly, "This is a bracelet that has been passed down from a long time ago, even if you don't like wearing it... just take it back and put it away also."

"Originally, I planned to give it to you on the day you got married, but I was worried... I was worried that something would happen to my old bones, and I couldn't hand it over to you at that time..."

She didn't say any more.

Because Su Tong had carefully covered the bracelet with the other hand, and then smiled.

"Nothing."

She said with a smile.