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Chapter 4 Those memories that were thought to be forgotten (middle)

Chen Yi felt that it was really difficult for grandfather to change his ideas. He could not understand the lifestyle of spending money on everything in the city, and he could not let go of the home business he had accumulated over his whole life. Indeed, these furniture were not valuable, as it seems to be now.

However, when Chen Yi was a child, she heard her grandmother talk about some things before, and in fact, she also heard Chen’s father say it.

His grandfather joined the guerrillas when he was young, but later he continued to live a pastoral life because of injuries and his family's desperate obstacles. When he was young, he was a very hardworking person. He was the best at farming in nearby villages. In the past, he used to calculate the work points at the highest time, and his family never really cut off food. Even during the national famine in 1959, he always had some food to eat.

His grandfather was taller than he is when he was young, 1.78 meters tall, and he was very handsome and handsome. His family business at that time was very enviable at that time.

But Chen Yi's grandfather cared too much about food, or was too clear at that time. Therefore, Chen's father always complained to Chen Yi and the others from time to time.

"My uncle doesn't know that he feels sorry for people. At that time, when he was hungry, your grandma felt sorry for me and gave me my porridge. When he saw it, he grabbed the bowl. What do you think he said? He said, 'I can't go to the field to work, so I can't starve to death. I said my mother also got help from the field and eat more!' You said he was so cruel..."

Chen's father always called Chen Yi's grandfather "Bo", saying that they called him dad on the mountain.

Chen Yi once asked back, "Does grandpa feel sorry for grandma?"

Chen's father was dark and still worried about the past. When he heard this, he wiped his face and reluctantly admitted, "He is the kind of person who cares about his wife and not his children! After your second father drowned, he said that his son had no food in the fields and wasted it, which made him feel distressed! He is just cruel. He may not feel distressed to my mother. After a few days of illness, he was scolding her and insisted that she get up from the bed to cook, so he was just going to work in the fields after dinner..."

Chen's mother interrupted in anger at that time, "If you can't get up, cook for him, how can he go to the fields to work? Your whole family will drink the northwest wind!"

"What do you know!"

"Your uncle can't cook noodles, so who can you rely on if you don't rely on your mother to cook?"

Yes, the men in Chen Yi’s hometown and rural areas are really the only ones. They can’t cook the simplest noodles, and they will definitely be raw when they cook white rice. If their wife doesn’t cook, she will have to go hungry unless she is shameless and throws sweet potatoes into the fire. However, for their appetite, they will definitely not be full.

Chen's mother was very angry and hated the fact that Chen's father was overly partial to his mother, but Chen's father never admitted it. Even after complaining about his father, he would never admit that there was a difference in his filial piety to his parents.

However, Chen's mother felt that the facts were biased, Chen Yi felt so, Wenwen felt so, and even their relatives and friends felt so.

In fact, Chen's father was not disagreeing with his father's diligence. When he often mentioned the 1959 famine, he proudly said that they could survive the great famine and did not starve to death. He also said that at that time, someone in the village had dug up the food of dead people who had been buried, saying that although they were hungry, they had never reached that level.

"Grandpa, don't you miss us when you live in your hometown? In the past, you can meet every day by living in S City."

"I think... I think about it sometimes. But your uncle has to work and support his family. You are still studying at a young age, and you can't go back to the countryside to farm after you finish your studies. I'm used to it here. Anyway, you can come back to see us when you have time, and it's no big deal."

Dinner will be ready soon.

While eating, Wenwen looked at the bowl in front of him, "Oh, no, it was the basin used to serve soup in the city, and was stunned.

"Brother, I can't finish so much."

Chen Yi whispered unhelpful, "I'm worried too."

Chen’s father and mother ate a bowl, which was equivalent to more than three bowls in S City.

But Chen Yi's grandfather said that they were cheating and cheating at their own house must have two more bowls.

The father and mother of Chen were so scared that they both held the bowl and snatched it back. They said that after living in the city for a long time, they would not eat so much, and they would not go to the fields to work, and their appetites were getting smaller and smaller.

Chen Yi's grandfather didn't believe it at first, but later Chen's father was really anxious and called it, so he half-believed and half-doubtedly asked them to eat more food.

Chen Yi remembered that the last time she came back was a similar situation. Women in her hometown generally seemed to have two pots of food, men had three pots, and some could eat four pots.

For those living in the city, that's incredible.

However, Chen Yi vaguely remembered that when she was a child, she could also eliminate two bowls in the countryside. She only doubted where she had put the rice at that time, and the stomach hidden in her body was so big?

Shortly after dinner, Chen Yi left the house to have a breath of wind. The air in the mountains was indeed very refreshing. Although it was cold, people felt particularly awake. Not long after, his grandfather came out with a pipe in his arms and entered the house where the miscellaneous items were piled up.

Chen Yi followed him and saw that his grandfather was still packing up the dry firewood, so she went to help.

I accidentally saw a wooden board placed beside the wall looking very familiar, so I asked.

"When you were a child, you always liked to take it and slide it on the slope, and slide it from the top and bottom. Did you forget?"

Chen Yi then remembered that it was indeed this wooden board. I remembered the feeling of being scared when I looked at the slope in the afternoon, so I wanted to give it a try.

"I want to skate again? Then go, don't run over the slope, there is a stone under the snow."

Chen Yi climbed with the wooden board for a long time before reaching the slope more than 30 meters. Looking at the steep slope, she couldn't help but feel scared. After a long period of self-motivation, she finally put the wooden board on the snow and sat on it bent her legs.

With a cruel heart and pushing the board, the board will slide down the slope.

The speed of falling was far faster than he estimated, especially in the second half, when he saw the bottom, he couldn't help but worry about whether people would fly out when they collided, and he could hardly resist fear and wanted to jump off the board.

But in the end I held back.

The slope was not as terrible as he thought, and there was almost no particularly strong vibration. The high-speed wooden board stopped moving forward in a silence.

He stood up, looked back at the slope, and couldn't help but smile.

‘Yes, what’s so scary about this? It’s really scary to fall, but in fact, you can’t slide off when you sit firmly on the wooden board. If you shrink back because you know the consequences of danger, wouldn’t it be better to come ignorance?’

Chen Yi's grandfather walked out of the woodshed and smoked dry cigarettes to watch him play, not worried at all.

But Chen's mother, who walked out of the house to look for them, saw Chen Yi holding a wooden board under the slope and screamed anxiously.

"What's wrong with you!"

"Slide and play."

"Hu Zheng!" Chen's mother snatched the wooden board and put it into the woodshed. She couldn't help but complain that Chen Yi's grandfather would not dissuade him.

"What's the point of making a fuss? He just plays like this when he comes to his little boy."

"I'm so confused!" Chen's mother was so angry that she pushed them back into the house and burned the fire, and ordered Chen Yi not to make trouble again.

Chen's father had limited vacations. After living in the mountain for a few days, he was busy going to the Hebian Village where Chen's mother grew up. A large number of relatives lived in that village. Some of them worked in S City and had lived in Chen Yi's house for several hours. They were originally acquaintances, but they were also very enthusiastic about receiving their family. They had to think about which house to eat for a meal for a long time.

Compared to the mountains, it is so lively.

When she was busy paying homage to her grandparents and second father, Chen's mother was very sad.

"You two just don't get blessings. Now that life is getting better, you are no longer here and you can't enjoy any blessings. And you are such a smart kid, such a smart guy, and your child's character. Now Junjun has grown up but can't remember your second father. We have been outside for many years and have never been able to burn paper for you during festivals. It's rare to come back. I feel sad when I think of you, why did you go so early..."

Chen's father was sad to hear it, and he comforted Chen's mother rarely. He took the yellow paper and asked Chen Yi and Wenwen to kneel down and say a few words to his grandparents and second father.

Chen Yi's second father, Chen's father's biological brother, drowned in the river in front of the village very young, because of cramps in the water. On the day of his death, he wanted to go because he saw young people in other villages swimming in the river. Chen's mother said that she was very uneasy at that time and scolded him for not allowing him to go. He agreed at that time, but later, he disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Chen's mother was afraid that he would go down the river, so she hurriedly went to find her. Others said that she had just seen her bathing in the river, but later she didn't know where she went.

Just drowned.
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