Chapter 83 Zhou's Memories
Just as he ordered the girl who was cooking to leave rice washing water, Zhou leaned out and said, "Where is Grandpa?"
"Tell me out and buy something." Li Zaoer was asking and answering whatever she asked, but suddenly she had an idea, gave the order, and walked in to get Zhou's words.
Zhou was making shoes, and when he saw his daughter coming in, he moved to the kang.
The shoes of the men at home have always been made by the three of them. Compared with clothes and pantyhose, the Li family has taken shoes first. Over the years, Li Zaoer has naturally learned a good craft in the Li family.
Sitting on the side of the kang, he took the upper that was sewn in Zhou's hand, Li Zaoer put on a small thimble and continued to sew it down skillfully. He had been used to making it for so many years, and the size of the shoes was remembered in his heart. He knew at a glance that he was the eldest brother's.
While sewing shoes, the mother and the mother talked casually for a few homely words. Li Zaoer said without raising her head, "Mom, grandpa is so amazing."
Zhou took the soles of her shoes, heard her question rudely, and didn't pay much attention, and said casually: "What?"
"I always thought that it would be great if my grandfather knew how to read. I didn't expect that when I saw him today, my grandfather seemed to be able to make rouge?" Li Zaoer said admiringly.
"Is that true? Grandpa has such ability, it's really amazing!" Zhou was stunned when he heard it, and his movements were paused for a moment, obviously very surprised.
Li Zaoer was more surprised than her, "Mom, don't you know either?"
Zhou's eyes were a little confused, as if he was recalling something. After a while, he picked up the work in his hand, but he was also absent-minded and sewed it all over and over again. After sewing it a few times, he stopped again, sighed, and said, "The year I married your father, your grandfather hadn't come home yet!"
Li Zaoer was even more surprised and wanted to ask, but forced herself to slow down again. "Mom, what do you mean?" After pausing, she looked at Zhou's face and added quickly, "If I can't know, Mom, just pretend I didn't ask."
Zhou looked up at Li Zaoer, but there was no reproach on his face. Instead, he was a little sad. His eyes were a little misty, as if he had something very sad in his heart. Because it was a long time ago, he had become accustomed to enduring, but the feeling of heartache was still there.
Li Zaoer has been the daughter of Zhou for more than ten years. She has never seen all kinds of appearances before, but she has never seen such a kind of appearance.
I was afraid that it had aroused Zhou's sadness and felt regretful. Li Zaoer said softly: "Mom...it's my fault. I shouldn't ask randomly, so I'll make my sad."
Zhou shook her head and said, "Nothing is wrong here!" She calmed down, smiled, continued to put on the soles of her shoes, and said, "It's just that I remembered my mother's hometown, my grandfather, my grandmother, and a large group of brothers and sisters in my family, and by the way, the big elm tree in my family."
My mother still has her parents' home? I almost asked this because I was so surprised. Li Zaoer slapped herself in the heart in time, "Where is my mother's hometown?"
"Let's go far away! In this life, I probably don't want to go back and take a look!" Zhou smiled, his face no longer sad, but instead showed a faint vicissitudes, mixed with a hint of helpless open-mindedness.
"Why did my mother marry so far? Why didn't my grandfather ask you to find a local son-in-law?" Li Zaoer had long concluded that the Li family moved here later, and asked in a turn.
Zhou smiled, "Who can tell the truth about the future? My father and I were from the same hometown. My family lived at the end of the village, and your father lived at the entrance of the village. It was common when we were young..." Her face turned lightly, "When we grew up, we naturally followed him. Who would have thought that the Li family would move in the future..."
Li Zaoer shouted, "What are you doing to move!"
Zhou thought about it carefully, shook his head, and said, "I don't know about this either. When I married your father, his father-in-law hadn't come back yet!"
This was interesting, and Li Zaoer hurriedly asked, "Mom, what do you mean by this?"
Zhou said: "If I talk about it, since I can remember, I don't have father-in-law. I just heard later that before my mother-in-law gave birth to a son, I suddenly left the village one night and disappeared. However, when I realized this problem, it was all about me after I married your father. After more than ten years, I guess only my parents-in-law knew what was going on."
Li Zaoer was so concerned about it and said, "What about later?"
Zhou sighed and said, "The second year I married your father, I gave birth to your elder brother. When your elder brother was two months old, his father-in-law suddenly returned home late one night."
"Ah!" Li Zaoer screamed in surprise, "Grandpa is back?"
Zhou Shichen looked at her with a smile and said, "Grandpa is not coming back, who are you seeing now?"
Li Zaoer also knew that she was stupid in her question, but she was really surprised. Such things might be very bloody when she was on TV series, but when she got on her own, the feeling was really creepy all over her body.
"What happened later?"
"Later, your grandparents discussed a few things in the room and decided to move immediately."
"immediately?"
"Well, your father and I brought all the valuable things in the family... In fact, they are all poor families, and there are no things, they are just clothes that can be changed." Zhou frowned and recalled, "At that time, there was still a pig and a few chickens. The pigs were all very fat, and the chickens were very good at laying eggs... We had a cart, and I didn't even have time to pass on a message to my family, so I went out in panic. When I went out, I found that my father-in-law had even brought a cart back."
"Fortunately, our family lived at the entrance of the village, and half of us moved quietly without any alarm." Zhou opened his eyes blankly, as if he had seen the situation at that time. "It was the first time that your father and I met my father-in-law. How far we have gone, Shen'er has not come back yet. But, we met again..." She paused suddenly, looked at Li Zaoer alertly, and whistled, "Oh, I don't know if my parents are still alive now, what the family has become! They probably think I am dead!"
When Li Zaoer heard that Zhou clearly concealed something, she knew that she had a sense of responsibility, so she pretended not to hear it, "Where is the grandma, what about grandma?"
Zhou's face darkened again, "My mother-in-law pulled your father up by herself, and her body was no longer good. She was so strong that she could not afford to travel a long distance. On the way..." She got off the kang and opened a cabinet to show Li Zaoer, "This is your grandma's tablet. When your grandma passed by, your grandma was in great pain... In order not to make your grandma sad, your father and I have been here. In the early years, you were young and didn't tell you about this. Now you have beaten me, so you can give your grandma a incense stick."
Li Zaoer immediately kowtowed obediently and incense again. Then she took a look and found that her grandmother's surname was Tian.
After closing the cabinet, the mother and the mother sat on the kang again. Li Zaoer asked, "Mom, why did grandpa move?"
Zhou shook his head, "I don't know this either. Your father asked me a few times, and he was scolded by your grandfather every time. After a long time, he stopped asking."
"Then... what did grandpa do after so many years?"
Zhou still shook her head, "It seemed like a taboo in the village at the beginning, and few people were willing to mention it. When I talk about it, those who may be familiar with it were all very scared. I really don't know what my father-in-law did, but I left for so many years. And..." She herself frowned strangely, "When I asked about what my father-in-law did in the countryside, my mother-in-law refused to say that your father-in-law didn't know, and I dared not ask..."
"Oh..." Li Zaoer obediently stopped asking, understanding that Zhou could not know more.
Li Ji was very mysterious when he left home, and it was even more unexpected when he came back. He moved overnight and Zhou didn’t even have time to send a message. How urgent was that?
I remembered that Li Ji knew how to make rouge, there was a book that I didn’t want people to see, and a bizarre past...
Chapter completed!