In an apartment building in Province G of China in 2053, Fang Nuo woke up to the sound of a phone ringing. She was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes. She fumbled on the bedside table for a while, finally found the phone, and took a look at it. , it was Aunt Wu who lived next door to her hometown.
She pressed the answer button and put it to her ear when she heard the person inside say: "Xiao Nuo, come back quickly, your grandma is dying."
Hearing that it was about his grandma, Fang Nuo woke up from his nap. He sat up and replied quickly: "What, okay, okay, Aunt Wu, please take care of my grandma. I will pack my things and buy a ticket and come back."
"Okay, hurry up. When we came over today to wake her up for breakfast, she had already started to feel confused. It was also during this time that there was a lot of farm work at home, so we didn't pay much attention. Now she is chanting Are you coming back?" Aunt Wu said
"Okay, I'll buy a plane ticket as soon as possible. I can arrive as soon as the afternoon." Fang Nuo felt very sad when he thought that his only relative was about to leave him.
But let’s put these down for now, anxious to go back and take a look.
Because time was urgent, after finishing the phone call with her family, she quickly got up and simply packed two sets of clothes and took them with her. She booked the earliest flight ticket to her hometown in the county online, packed some necessary supplies, and went out to take a taxi. Airport.
On the way, she called the company leader and explained her family affairs, but the leader only gave her three days of leave.
She didn't have any extra time to argue with her boss now, so she only agreed to take a three-day holiday first and talk about it later.
When she arrived at the airport, she started checking in and entering the station. After boarding the plane, she had time to rest for a while.
Fang Nuo is twenty-five years old this year and has just graduated from college three years ago. Her parents have been gone since she was a child. She was still young at that time, so she doesn't know how they died.
What she remembers is that she and her grandmother depended on each other since she was a child. The old man raised her by farming. After sending her to study, because the money from selling the crops at home was not enough, she would go to the town to pick up the crops in her spare time. If you sell bottles and cardboard boxes, you can earn from a few hundred to more than a thousand a month.
The old man worked so hard to send her to study.
At a young age, she knew how hard her grandma worked, so she studied very hard, and finally got admitted to a good university. After graduating, she also joined a good company and could earn a job worth more than 10,000 yuan a month.
But since she went to college and started working, she had less and less time to go back to visit her grandma. She finally worked hard for more than two years and bought a small apartment in the city. She thought that she could bring her grandma to live with her in the city. .
But grandma refused because she wasn't used to living in the city. In fact, she knew that grandma didn't want to come over because she wasn't used to living there and clearly didn't want to cause her any more trouble.
Later, she tried her best to find free time to go home to see her, but her grandma was getting older and her health was getting worse and worse. She couldn't watch her every day because she had to work, so she could only ask the neighbor's Aunt Wu to help her do it every day. I can cook and help take care of her.
She had just returned to the city to work this time. She thought her grandma was in good health. Although she had some minor problems, they did not have much impact on her life.
But this time she collapsed suddenly. She couldn't accept it for a while, and her only relative was leaving her.
Thinking about the scenes she had spent with her grandma in the past, she could no longer hold back the tears in her eyes. She pulled the blanket over her body to cover her head, and she could only cry silently.
The plane arrived at the county airport not long after. As soon as she left the station, she took a taxi back to the village.
She quickly rushed home and walked into her small courtyard. She saw many people from the village coming. Seeing that she was back, they all asked her to go inside to see the old man.
Fang Nuo didn't waste any time, put the things aside on the floor, and entered grandma's room. At this time, there were many people sitting beside the old man's bed, all trying to talk to the old man, trying to make her wake up.
Seeing Wen Nuo coming, everyone could only wipe their eyes and walked aside to make room for her.
"Grandma, I'm back, please see if I'm okay," Fang Nuo cried as he looked at the old man who was no longer conscious and could no longer hold back his tears.
"Arnold, is my little Arnold back?" Grandma Fang seemed to have lost sight. She just heard a familiar voice, and her hands were scratching at the side.
"It's me, grandma, I'm back. Your Xiao Nuo is back. Please get well soon, okay? Didn't you say you wanted to see me get married and have children, and take care of my great-grandson?" Fang Nuo grabbed the old man's hand and said, cried.
"Okay, grandma... will... accompany... our little Arnold to grow up," the old man promised intermittently, but everyone could hear that she had tried her best.
As soon as she finished saying this, her eyes seemed to be healed. She looked straight ahead and said: "Old man, you are here to pick me up. Just wait for me. I will be here soon."
After saying this, she died completely, with a faint smile on her face. It could be seen that she was not in any pain before her death.
Fang Nuo could only watch his grandma die, and then lay beside the bed crying sadly.
Aunt Wu had watched the child grow up and couldn't bear to see her cry so sadly, so she called on others to help the old man clean and dress. She and another aunt went up and pulled Fang Nuo to the next door to comfort her: "Xiao Nuo Ah, this person is old and it is normal for him to leave. You must cheer up and don’t be too sad. You still have to make decisions about what happens next."
"Aunt Wu, even grandma is gone. I will have no relatives in the future," Fang Nuo cried.
"Okay, don't you still have relatives like us here? When you come back, you will go to my house first. Aunt Wu will call you during the holidays, so you can come back when you have time, okay? "Okay, stop crying, be good." Aunt Wu and the others all know that it has been difficult for the Fang family since a long time ago.
When people in the village saw her, they would help anyone who could. They thought that the little girl had finally grown up and had become famous, and that it was the old lady's turn to enjoy the blessings. Unexpectedly, she ended up like this.
Fang Nuo didn't dare to let herself be sad for too long. She still had to arrange her grandmother's funeral arrangements by herself, so she cheered up after being sad for a day and arranged all the follow-up matters.
The people in the village also helped her with the old man's funeral arrangements. Five days after the first arrival, the old man went up the mountain. After the incident was over, they all went to work in their fields.
Fang Nuo was already absent from work for the third day. During this period, her boss didn't call her, but she didn't answer the phone. After finishing the matter, she looked at this small courtyard full of her childhood memories. , but the grandma who accompanied him in the small courtyard is no longer there.
