This is a typical rural courtyard with three broken thatched houses and fences. Outside the wall are pigpens and cow troughs, and a chicken coop and a pot house on one side.

"Linzi, is it you? Are you back to see grandma?"

The old man is in his sixties, with gray hair and wrinkles on his face. He is wearing coarse cloth clothes, with a thin and shriveled figure. He holds his granddaughter and makes his heart hurt.

Both grandparents and grandchildren cried, but they didn't know why.

"Damn old lady, didn't you force my mother to take me to school in the city? Why do you miss me again now? I shouldn't come back to see you!" After crying, the little girl wiping her tears to the old man while complaining.

The old man smiled and said, "I'm for your own good and want you to receive a better education, but grandma really misses you. You don't know. During the time you just left, I had to cry every day. Be good, you raised me by myself, and suddenly I left my hands. It's like cutting my flesh in my heart. Can it hurt?"

"Okay, don't be sensational, how are you in good health?" the girl asked, holding the old man's hand.

"It's okay, I'm in good health. Look at me, are you very good?" the old man smiled.

"You are lying to me. I've heard from my devil father for a long time. Are you cancerous? You're just waiting to die at home now?"

"Where is it? It's just a minor illness, it doesn't hurt or itchy. I'll just use a local recipe to cure it myself." The old man changed the topic, looked at Qin Long with his eyes, and asked curiously: "Linzi, this person is--"

"I recognize my brother, and he is called Qin Long. Just call him Long Zi. He is here to help with the work. If you have any work at home in the future, just leave it to him and don't be polite to him," Xu Lin introduced.

The old man nodded and looked at Qin Long curiously.

"Hello, Grandma," Qin Long said hello quickly.

"Not bad," the old man nodded, "Then let's stay here first. Have you eaten? I'll cook for you."

"Grandma, don't bother me. You're resting. I'll come by myself. This is not someone else's home. I won't leave after coming back this time and continue to study in the town. My mother is not doing it. I'm staying with her sooner or later. I'll have something to do. All day long, I'll bring some wild men back when I'm fine. I'm so disgusting." Xu Lin helped the old man into the house and took out 20,000 yuan to the old man, "Grandma, this is my brother who respects you, you can take it."

"Oh, where did you get so much money from, your child? This is impossible!" The old man quickly refused.

"Grandma, it's okay. I gave her the money. The purpose is to respect you and to give you a medical treatment," Qin Long said.

The old man fell silent, put the money on the table, and then said to Xu Lin: "Linzi, go to the pot house to cook, I have something to say to Longzi."

"What do you say to him?" Xu Lin said curiously.

"Go, you go out first!" The old man showed unquestionable majesty. Xu Lin had no choice but to go out in a depressing manner.

"Young man, sit down," the old man pointed to the stool next to the table and said to Qin Long.

Qin Long sat down and looked at the old lady with some anxiety.

"How old are you this year?" Grandma Xu Lin asked him.

"It's 23, Xu Sui, 22," Qin Long said nervously.

"Oh, then do you know how old our Linzi is this year?" the old lady continued to ask.

"She said she was 12," Qin Long replied.

The old lady frowned and stared at him: "Since you know her age and dare to be with her, do you want to go to jail? Who do you think we are? Did you give birth to a daughter and takeout?!"

The old lady suddenly started to get angry, which scared Qin Long.

He waved his hand in a hurry and said, "Grandma, you misunderstood. Xu Lin and I met by chance, Qingqing, I swear I have never touched her."

The old lady frowned and said, "You haven't touched her, so why do you give her so much money? Explain it clearly, what's going on. Linzi is young, I'm worried that she will be deceived. You are not young anymore, let me explain it clearly."

Qin Long was so depressed that he didn't know what to say, so he could only briefly describe the process of getting to know Xu Lin. Of course, the plot of being chased by the killer was omitted, and he only said that he sympathized with Xu Lin, so he followed her to the countryside.

The old lady looked at him in confusion, and after a long time, nodded and said, "Looking at the girl's complexion, I don't seem to be a person with a face. I can believe half of your words, but I never really believe that you will pay for me to treat me for no reason. After all, you still like Linzi, right?"

Qin Long was embarrassed and felt that although the old lady was old, she had a thorough thinking. Finally, she could only nod and said, "Grandma, since you said that, I won't hide it from you. I do like Linzi very much, but I also know that she is too young, so I will not have any inappropriate thoughts about her for the time being. I will treat her as a sister and wait until she grows up."

The old lady nodded: "If you can do this, I can make the decision. It seems that you are not a bad person, and our Linzi is not bad, and we are more than enough to match you. But before she becomes an adult, you must not bully her. Moreover, when she grows up, you cannot control her. She may fall in love with others. This is something that is unsure. If you take back the money, we don't want it. If you want to be with Linzi, stay in peace. We don't want anything to do, we just hope to have a peaceful family."

"Grandma, this money is for you to treat you," Qin Long said.

The old lady shook her head and said, "I know my own illness. The hospital cannot cure it. It's just a radiation that makes people's hair fall off and their body ruined. I'm so old, even if I die soon, it doesn't matter. Why do I still spend money to suffer from that life? There are native methods in our countryside to cure this disease."

"What kind of method can cure cancer?" Qin Long said curiously.

"Eat the toads," the old lady smiled, got up, took out a paper bag from the cabinet, opened it, and it was filled with dried toads.

"It's this, I'm drying it myself. Every time I eat a little bit, it's toxic. When I first started, my mouth became numb and I gradually increased the dose. I have taken it for half a year and now my illness has improved a lot," said the old lady.

Qin Long couldn't help but nodded and said, "The toad and toad poison both have the effects of treating cancer. Grandma, you have taken the right medicine. If you continue to treat it like this, you may not be sure that the disease can be cured. Even if it cannot be cured, it can last for at least ten years."

"Hehe, let me lend you a good word," the old lady smiled and said to him, "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. That's what, you should sleep in the east room at night. That's the room where Linzi lived before. Linzi slept with me tonight."

"So good, thank you grandma," Qin Long smiled happily.

"You sit down first, I'll go and see if Linzi has prepared the meal," the old lady stood up.

"Grandma, sit down, I'll go see it. Don't treat me as an outsider," Qin Long stood up and ran out.

In the pot house, Xu Lin was sweating all over her face and was cooking in the fire. When she saw him coming in, she couldn't help but ask with a smile: "The agreement was settled? How did you coax the old man?"

"What is coaxing? I'm telling the truth, okay?" Qin Long said with a smile.

"What are you telling the truth?" Xu Lin said curiously.

"I told her that I came for you. When you grow up, I will marry you as my wife. The old man agreed, so from now on, you will be my child bride."

"Roll, who is your child bride? I don't care about you," the girl stuck out her tongue, her little face flushed.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!