The leisurely life of a reborn dad

If you think about it carefully, this is really a problem.

Cheng Xiaolin waited until her daughter fell asleep before carrying her to the second floor.

Cao Shujie followed up and pushed open the bedroom door. Cao Shujie had an intoxicated expression on his face: "It's better to be at home."

"Shujie, don't talk nonsense. Please help me hold Mengmeng while I change the sheets." Cheng Xiaolin said.

After leaving for half a month, even if it was not dirty, Cheng Xiaolin had to change it.

Cao Shujie carefully hugged his daughter to make Mengmeng sleep more comfortably.

After watching his wife change the sheets, Cao Shujie knelt on the bed with one leg and put his daughter on the bed.

"Shujie, cover her with a blanket and don't let her freeze." Cheng Xiaolin asked her husband.

At this time, let alone summer, it is also incomparable with early October. The temperature has dropped drastically. The temperature at night is now in the single digits, which is even colder than when they were in WW City.

"Shujie, do you really want our grandfather to go to the uncle's place?" Cheng Xiaolin asked.

Cao Shujie showed hesitation for the first time and said, "How should I put it? For grandpa, the palms and backs of his hands are all meat."

"I'm not saying he won't go if I don't let him go. Wife, do you understand?" Cao Shujie looked at his wife with a complicated expression in his eyes.

Cheng Xiaolin nodded, she understood!

Even if her husband doesn't want his grandpa to leave, what does grandpa himself think?

There are also his sons, grandsons and great-grandsons there.

Cheng Xiaolin also remained silent and did not speak.

As her husband said, this matter is quite difficult and very confusing.

Coming down from upstairs, Cao Shujie went to the kitchen to help his mother cook. When he opened the door, he saw that his mother-in-law Li Xiaojuan was also busy inside.

Seeing him coming, Li Xiaojuan asked him: "Shujie, has Mengmeng been put on the bed?"

"Well, I'm also tired. I slept like crazy. Mom, you go and rest for a while. I'll just cook." Cao Shujie said.

Li Xiaojuan said: "You go and do your work. My eldest sister and I are cooking. It's okay."

"Where's Dongdong?" Cao Shujie didn't see his nephew.

Li Xiaojuan said: "He just fell asleep in bed."

"So fast." Cao Shujie was surprised.

Coming to the living room, his grandfather Cao Zhenghu was sitting on the official hat chair with his eyes closed.

Cao Shujie thought that his grandpa had also fallen asleep sitting down from exhaustion. He was thinking of going over to pat him and let him go to his room to rest. Who knew that his grandpa suddenly opened his eyes.

Cao Shujie was shocked at this moment.

"Grandpa, if you are tired, go inside and rest for a while." Cao Shujie said.

A gentle smile appeared on Cao Zhenghu's face that was beginning to have age spots. Inadvertently, Cao Shujie noticed that his grandfather looked older.

Cao Zhenghu shook his head: "I'm not sleepy."

"Okay, the food will be ready soon. We can rest after dinner." Cao Shujie said.

Cao Zhenghu nodded and said, "Shujie, make me a cup of tea."

"Okay, grandpa, do you want green tea or black tea?" Cao Shujie opened the cupboard and asked his grandpa.

"Black tea." Cao Zhenghu said.

A few minutes later, Cao Shujie placed the tea cup in front of his grandfather. The red tea soup was steaming and had a faint fragrance.

Cao Zhenghu took the teacup and blew on the surface of the teacup with his mouth. The water surface rippled, and the hot air rising upwards was blown away. He looked at his grandson and said: "Shujie, I don't want to go to Anyi, your uncle." Over there.”

"Hey, okay, grandpa, you can stay with me." Cao Shujie was overjoyed and immediately followed.

He said: "Grandpa, if you want to eat something, I'll buy it tomorrow. Any delicacies from the mountains and seas will do."

"Your grandson!" Cao Zhenghu looked at the sudden smile on his grandson's face and felt happy in his heart, but he said, "I don't want to eat anything now."

"This time we go back to Xinjiang, are there not enough good things to eat on the way? I can't eat anymore." Cao Zhenghu pressed his hand down and motioned for his grandson to sit down too.

He said: "I will be 84 during the Chinese New Year. To put it bluntly, I don't know when I will die. I think it's better not to go out and run."

"That's no problem, but grandpa, don't say that. Let's live like a land god first." Cao Shujie said with a smile: "I specially opened a vegetable garden on the mountain. From now on, our food and drink will be the cleanest. Those dietary supplements and medicines are much more powerful.”

"Grandpa, listen to me, being a hundred years old is nothing." Cao Shujie expressed his stance.

Cao Zhenghu was amused by him: "Okay, I'm not scared, the main thing is that I'm gone and your grandma is at home, which is not good."

"Grandpa, don't think so, we won't mention it."

Cao Shujie said, "I'll give you a call later."

"Call your uncle and I'll tell him." Cao Zhenghu took another sip of tea and said.

Cao Shujie thought for a moment and nodded: "I'll call you right now."

After dialing a phone number for almost twenty seconds, the person on the other end answered the phone: "Hello, Shujie, are you back?"

"Uncle, I just came home today. I heard from my dad that you called me some time ago." Cao Shujie said.

Cao Jianlin's voice came: "Yes, I think the end of the year is coming soon. Your eldest brother and I will go back to our hometown at the end of the year to pick up your grandfather."

As soon as he finished speaking, Cao Zhenghu motioned to his grandson Cao Shujie to hand him the phone.

Cao Shujie handed it over, and Cao Zhenghu said into the microphone: "Jianlin, I am your father!"

"Let me tell you something, I'm getting old and I don't plan to travel far away." Cao Zhenghu said concisely and clearly.

Cao Jianlin was stunned. Before he could recover, he heard his old father say again: "If you come back to play, you can come back anytime. If you pick me up, you don't have to come back."

"Dad, why? When you come, I will accompany you around." Cao Jianlin didn't understand.

Is he still thinking that his second brother or nephew gave his old father Ecstasy?

Then I heard Cao Zhenghu say: "If I died outside, your mother would be so lonely!"

Cao Shujie looked at his grandfather's cheerfulness and didn't know what to say.

He was struggling with his wife on the second floor just now. At that time, he told his wife that she didn't know what grandpa thought, but she didn't expect that grandpa's ideas were very simple.

These words blocked Cao Jianlin and he didn't know how to respond.

Cao Zhenghu has already said: "Okay, I have said everything that needs to be said, hang up the phone first."

After saying that, he threw the phone to Cao Shujie, but Cao Shujie didn't pick it up properly and dropped the phone directly to the ground, almost breaking it.

…

Jianguo Community on Changguo Road, Anyi City, is an old community.

Brothers Cao Shubin and Cao Shuxin pooled their money and bought their father a two-bedroom apartment of more than 60 square meters in this old community.

Without a son or daughter-in-law to take care of him, Cao Jianlin is quite comfortable living here alone.

Just after making the call, I listened to the blind tone coming from the phone and looked at the other bedroom with the door closed, where my father lived last year.

He didn't expect that his old father would be unwilling to come this year.

"How can this be done? We agreed that one person would take care of him for a year." Cao Jianlin muttered.

After he came to his senses, he quickly called his two sons and asked them to come to his place after get off work to discuss the matter.

After it got dark, Cao Shuxin and Cao Shubin came over one after another. Cao Jianlin told the two brothers that their grandfather Cao Zhenghu was unwilling to come over.

"That's roughly what your grandfather meant." Cao Zhenghu said.

"Dad, is my grandpa not feeling well? Did he say anything else?" Cao Shubin thought of this immediately.

Normally speaking, his grandfather is in his 80s and his health is definitely not as good as that of young people, even worse than his father. If he knows something is uncomfortable, it makes sense that he is unwilling to leave his hometown again.

After all, when people get old, everyone wants to return to their roots!

Cao Shuxin became anxious when he heard this: "Dad, why don't we go back early to see my grandpa."

"Probably not!" Cao Jianlin thought about calling his brother Cao Jianguo, but his brother didn't say anything special.

If the old father's health was really in trouble, his brother would not hide such a thing.

"That's strange." Cao Shubin muttered.

"Brother, don't think too much. Let's go back in a few days. If you have any questions, ask him in person. If possible, it's okay to bring our grandpa back a month in advance." Cao Shuxin suggested.

Cao Jianlong and Cao Shubin both agreed to this plan and did not even plan to call their second uncle and cousin. They planned to give them a surprise when they returned.

…

Mother-in-law Li Xiaojuan stayed in Caojiazhuang for two days. She thought it was time to go back and have a look after leaving Chengjiapo for 20 days, so she asked Cao Shujie to drive them back.

When Cao Shujie sent them back, he said, "Mom, it's cold now. It would be great if you guys stayed here a little longer."

"Your dad is an old fool, and he neglects his work. I figured he would leave the house in a mess within 20 days." Li Xiaojuan said this.

But Cao Shujie could understand her homesickness.

I sent my mother-in-law and nephew back to Chengjiapo. As soon as I arrived, I heard my father-in-law Cheng Rengui saying that 10 calves had been delivered to them.

These calves were for Cao Shujie's account, but Cao Shujie had not bothered to transfer them to Cui Jingguo while he was playing outside.

He thought about transferring it to Cui Jingguo when he got home.

Before leaving, Cao Shujie secretly left 10,000 yuan for the old couple. He walked back to Pingyuan County, where his mother-in-law Li Xiaojuan called and asked him anxiously on the phone if he had forgotten something. .

"Mom, that money is reserved for you and my dad to spend. Don't be reluctant to part with it, just spend it as you like." Cao Shujie said.

Li Xiaojuan naturally didn't want it, and asked Cao Shujie to drive back to get it quickly.

"Mom, I'll be home soon. You can just spend it, there's no need to keep it."

Cao Shujie still pretended to say "Hey, hey, hey" for a while, and said, "Mom, I'm driving the car here, so hang up first."

Chengjiapo, Cheng Rengui's house, the old couple looked at the 10,000 yuan in the black plastic bag, and they looked at each other.

Li Xiaojuan also muttered: "Lao Cheng, look at your son-in-law, then look at your son, he can't do anything, he is such a waste!"

"..." What else could Cheng Rengui say?

But he also knew that if compared with his son-in-law, his son Cheng Yunping couldn't compare at all!

…

After Cao Shujie returned home, Cheng Xiaolin asked him: "So, my dad didn't make the house a mess, right?"

Cao Shujie thought about the scene when he first arrived at his father-in-law's house, and smiled: "Honey, you know your dad quite well."

"What do you mean, I quite understand, he alone makes people feel at ease." Cheng Xiaolin said.

Cao Shujie did not argue with his wife about the merits of their elders. He said, "I gave the money to the old couple. When you have time, call our mother and tell them not to keep the money and spend it as needed."

When I went to pick up my mother-in-law some time ago, my mother-in-law Li Xiaojuan said that she had saved the money. My father-in-law also said that after selling the five big cows, I would have money.

But Cao Shujie thought about it carefully later, and he felt that most of the time his family really had no money. As for the family still having savings, it was probably because they were embarrassed to ask him for money.

Not to mention his father-in-law and mother-in-law, his parents Cao Jianguo and Wang Yuelan also took the initiative to give him money last year and this year. Otherwise, the old couple would rather be miserable without money than ask him for it.

There is no way, this seems to be a common problem of his parents' generation, they are always afraid of causing trouble to their children.

October waved goodbye to people in a hurry and turned around to welcome November again, with the temperature dropping further.

According to the weather forecast, it has started to snow in some places, and it is still falling heavily.

The last fallen leaf in the orchard also swirled and fell to the ground after a gust of cold wind. In an instant, the orchard became bare.

Cao Shujie looked at the bare mountain and wondered whether he should plant some flowers that bloom in winter to add a little life to the mountain.

At this time, Cao Jianlong called him and told him that Cao Jiangang had just come back and was brought back by a police car.

"I heard that he cannot leave Yiling City." Cao Jianlong said on the phone.

After hearing this, Cao Shujie realized that his uncle Jiangang should be serving his sentence outside prison!

As for the specific reason, Cao Shujie didn't know, but he couldn't rule out that there was something really wrong with his uncle Jiangang's health.

Cao Jianlong called him because he wanted to ask him to go over and see Cao Jiangang.

"Uncle Long, I'm free at any time." Cao Shujie said.

It is better to choose a day than to hit it. Cao Jianlong asked him to go there today.

Cao Shujie came down from the mountain and took a look at his house. There were still two bottles of Blue and White 20 and 4 boxes of pure milk. He directly picked up a box and rode an electric bike to meet Cao Jianlong.

"Uncle Long, let's go." Cao Shujie greeted Cao Jianlong when he saw him.

Cao Jianlong looked at the Blue and White 20 and said to him, "You still have a lot of good wine at home."

"That's necessary. I've prepared two bottles of Wuliangye for you. I'll deliver them to you another day." Cao Shujie opened his mouth.

This made Cao Jianlong feel happy. He reached out and pointed at Cao Shujie: "You kid, don't bribe me. Tell me, what's the matter?"

"Don't worry, nothing will happen." Cao Shujie said with a smile: "This year will not be over soon. I wish us a good harvest next year in advance!"

This made sense, and the smile on Cao Jianlong's face became even stronger.

He said: "Shujie, whether it works or not depends on next year."

Cao Jianlong attaches great importance to it.

But Cao Shujie told him: "Not next year. There are only so many cattle farmers. The total number of cattle is only more than 100, which is not enough for one of my farms."

"After the Chinese New Year, I will buy a large amount of forage, which should boost everyone's morale." Cao Shujie also has his own plans.

We have to let the villagers see hope. Otherwise, just relying on a mouthful of nonsense, no matter how beautiful the plan is, without any hope at all, will really undermine people's self-confidence.