life pawn game

Chapter 32 My Grandpa Is A Little Weird

Grandpa has been acting strange recently.

I often see this kind of beginning in horror stories. The relatives around such as wife, husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law are getting more and more strange.

The relatives in these stories are weird, such as eating raw steak, their eyes glowing at night, being afraid of the sun, and laughing obscenely at the cartoon girls on the screen.

Grandpa is weird.

The strange thing is that I suddenly started raising fish and birds; I took a two-hour car ride just to pull a tree from the countryside and plant it; the secretary was in a hurry, asking for connections here, looking for acquaintances there, and hired an intern who was said to be many years ago...

The above is what Jiang Ruoying heard from her parents. What she felt, the first strange thing was that when she was wasting time in college with her youth like a rich man wasting money, her grandfather called and asked her to come over.

On the way, she was uneasy, so she called her parents, who inquired many times, worried and frightened for a long time, thinking that there was some kind of catastrophe.

In the first two years of her life, her mother violated her grandfather's arrangement and insisted on marrying her father, which caused a lot of trouble.

She was very curious when she was a child, and pestered her mother to ask what happened.Elope?Did you die for love?Have you been tied to the window by a publicist in the attic and climbed down to have a tryst at night?Mother didn't tell her.

Grandpa finally compromised and recruited his father to be his son-in-law. Since then, the relationship with his mother has been very bad, and it can almost be said that the relationship between father and daughter has been severed.

The mother, the only bond, was about to be broken, and her granddaughter was naturally not likable.

A few months ago, I heard that my grandfather was ill, and my mother took her to visit, but was driven back by the indifferent grandfather.

Such a grandfather, calling her without warning and letting her go, how can she not be timid and trembling?She didn't exchange numbers with grandpa!
She prepared for the worst, and when she came to her grandfather's villa, what she saw was a completely different grandfather.

The original grandfather was unsmiling and self-respecting, but now the grandfather is kind-hearted and amiable.

The next morning when she got home, she saw her grandpa smilingly teasing the birds, watering the flowers, and calling her Yingying, cold sweat broke out on her forehead.

She thought, grandpa must have been possessed by dirty things.

So I put a dozen talismans, a dozen strings of Buddhist beads, two crosses, two amulets, and two cloves of garlic in my pocket to observe secretly.

On the third day, Grandpa's favorite grandson came to see him, and was severely scolded and driven out of the villa.She thought the matter was a bit serious, so she began to survey the terrain of the villa and plan the escape route.

After a few more days, everything was normal, and she wondered if she was worrying too much.

Grandpa just changed from a staid patriarchal old man to a kind old man who grows flowers and plants.

Even if she touched her grandfather with the incense from the most efficacious Taoist temple, he did not let out a scream and turned into fly ash or pus.

Maybe it's because grandpa walked through the gate of hell and gained some insights into life?Actually nothing dirty?
Uncle and aunt came once, and grandpa was lukewarm.My aunt pulled her to the corner and asked her if she had done something, and if she had asked her grandpa for pocket money.

She deliberately asked her aunt to find some exorcists to show her grandfather, just in case, before she could say anything, her uncle and aunt were kicked out of the villa by her grandfather.

Mother was worried, and came to see her once, she couldn't bear to make mother worry, and didn't say anything about grandpa's abnormality.

Grandpa's attitude towards mother was still cold, but it was much better than before, at least he didn't drive mother away.

"Firefly!"

Grandpa's voice came from upstairs, Jiang Ruoying stopped eating strawberries: "Here we come!"

She washed her hands and went to the second floor of the villa, the grandfather's study.

Grandpa recently became obsessed with an old TV series called "The Eighth Pawnshop".Watch it with her every night.

After watching the play, my grandfather bought the novel again.He was old and had bad eyesight, so he asked his granddaughter to read.The granddaughter thought, am I a reader?while reading.

Grandpa has already laid down on the recliner, the bookmark is sandwiched between the novel, and the foot of the bookmark is where it was read last time.

Jiang Ruoying closed the door, picked up the book, pulled out the bookmark, and found the passage that should be read:
"... First, human property is occupied, then the body, then happiness, luck, health, love, reason... and finally, the soul. If life and death have a life, the boss is responsible for taking this life to him pawn shop..."

This drama and novel are very interesting, and Jiang Ruoying likes it very much.

But if you like it, you like it, it doesn't prevent her from thinking about it in her heart, such an old grandpa is actually addicted to this kind of fantasy novel!
It was already dark, and the wind blowing through the bamboo forest in the yard squeezed through the cracks of the slightly opened window, making the pleasant, crisp sound of bamboo leaves rubbing against each other.

Grandpa was listening with his eyes open, but slowly his eyelids closed. Jiang Ruoying lowered her voice and stepped forward to see if grandpa was really asleep.

At this time, a short musical instrument sounded.

It's a notification sound!

Jiang Ruoying thought it was the sound of her mobile phone, and was startled.

Grandpa treats her milder than before, but the strict character is still there.

Last time, my friend called when my grandfather was playing with the bird, and it scared the bird, so she got a good meal and said!

I hope this brief beep won't disturb grandpa.

She took out her mobile phone and found something was wrong.

I've switched to silent mode, where is the sound coming from?
Just wondering, grandpa woke up.

Grandpa hates to shirk responsibility the most, even though it feels wrong, Jiang Ruoying is still ready to reflect.

"I……"

Just as she started, she saw grandpa take out a mobile phone from his coat.

Well, it turned out to be your phone!

One doubt is solved, another doubt is tied.

Grandpa thought it was troublesome, so the mobile phone for handling affairs was kept by the secretary, and the mobile phone at home was left on the coffee table all day long like a fixed phone. When she went upstairs, she saw the mobile phone on the coffee table.

Why did the third mobile phone suddenly appear in the grandfather's hand?

The other two are business machines and home machines. What is the function of this one?
Jiang Ruoying was very curious.

She immediately stopped wondering about it.

She saw that after grandpa looked at the phone, his face, which was stiff because of the interrupted sleep, suddenly softened, and he also brought an unprecedented smile.

What's in that text message?How could it make grandpa so happy?
She moved her footsteps and wanted to poke her head out to see, but grandpa had already turned off the screen.

"Firefly." Grandpa looked at her.

She turned her head immediately, pretending to read the books on the shelf.

"Grandpa, tell me." She turned her head back.

"You dress up and accompany me to meet someone."

"Do you want to dress more formally, or wear an evening dress?"

"Wear your most beautiful clothes. Don't be too formal, not even evening dresses. Just like the ones worn by heroines in idol dramas, they are youthful, lively, beautiful and cute, and make men fall in love with you at a glance."

Grandpa, you actually watched idol dramas!
In other words, what is the style of "let a man fall in love with you at a glance"? Is it a new trend in the fashion industry?Is it a bit vulgar to call this name?
"..."

Surely it's a stylish name, right?Surely not literally?Grandpa, it is easy for me to misunderstand you when you say that.Hey, please make some supplementary explanations, Grandpa!
(End of this chapter)