The Snail Spirit Travels to the 1970s

"You can put some mushrooms in the chicken soup at night. The chicken soup and mushroom jelly should taste good." Tian Tian said.

Old Mrs. Tian laughed when she heard this. Tian Tian always had a lot of wild and imaginative ideas.

When Lin Meiyu and the others came back in the evening, they brought back a large sack of mushrooms. Tian Tian first heated up the chicken soup for them to eat. After they finished eating, everyone sat in front of the lamp at night and picked out all the mushrooms. The mushrooms that were not so good would be fried and eaten the next day, and the mushrooms with good shapes would be placed outside to dry and stored, and could be used to stew chicken in winter.

Picking these mushrooms is not an easy job. It took the whole family more than two hours to pick all the mushrooms. After picking, they took the mushrooms that needed to be dried to the kitchen, and put the mushrooms that needed to be eaten in a small pot on the other side. Then they swept the floor and went back to their own rooms to sleep.

Tian Tian spent a few more days leisurely at Lin Meiyu's house. Suddenly, a man from Grandma Lin's group came over. Tian Tian didn't know who this man was. It was her mother Lin Meiyu who recognized him and brought him into the house. Then Tian Tian heard the bad news that Grandma Lin had passed away last night.

Tian Tian was very shocked when she heard this. She hadn't been to Grandma Lin's house for several years. Ever since she got married and became pregnant, she hadn't come back at all. Later, because An An was too young and the road to Grandma Lin's house was difficult to travel, she never took An An there.

She had originally thought that An An was a little older now and didn't need as much careful care as when she was little, so she planned to take An An to visit Grandma Lin this year. Although Tian Tian hated Grandma Lin, as a junior she should still go and see her according to the proper etiquette.

But unexpectedly, before An An could meet her great-grandmother, Grandma Lin passed away.

Everyone was a little confused when they heard the news. Although there was some estrangement between her and Grandma Lin before, Lin Meiyu immediately started packing up and prepared to go to Grandma Lin's house. Tian Tian was also planning to go over to take a look, but Lin Meiyu asked Tian Tian to wait for news at home first.

She and Tian Lisong must go to help Grandma Lin.

If Tian Tian goes with them, then only Old Mrs. Tian will be left at home, and she would be a little worried about taking care of the child. After all, Old Mrs. Tian is old, and An An is at the age when she likes to play and is very lively. Old Mrs. Tian probably won't take care of her.

Moreover, a child cannot be looked after alone. If one person looks at the child all day long there is no time to rest. If two people look at the child together, they can take turns to rest for a while.

Tian Tian was a little worried when she saw Lin Meiyu's condition. "Mom, how about I go with you? I'll leave the child next door, at Sister Zhang's house for a while."

"No need. You and your grandmother stay at home. When the burial is over, you can go over and kowtow. Don't take the child with you. Go there and come back the same day. This way you two can take care of it. It won't be good for the child to see him there."

Tian Tian was really worried about An An, so she nodded and agreed, "Then you must call me if you have anything."

Lin Meiyu responded hurriedly and went to the roadside with Tian Lilin to wait for the bus.

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After watching Lin Meiyu and the others leave, Tian Tian felt a little unhappy. She sighed and went back to the room. Old Mrs. Tian was playing building blocks with An An on the kang.

Seeing Tian Tian coming in, she looked up at Tian Tian and said, "Your parents are gone."

Tian Tian nodded dejectedly and sat next to An An.

Old Mrs. Tian didn't seem to be in a very good mood. When Tian Tian came back, she gave her seat to Tian Tian and lay down aside.

Tian Tian glanced at Old Lady Tian and knew that she was thinking of herself because of Grandma Lin’s death, and she felt a little uncomfortable.

After all, Grandma Lin was a little younger than Grandma Tian. Now that Grandma Lin has passed away, Grandma Tian can't help but think of herself.

Tian Tian sighed and said nothing. She just quietly played games with An An.

An An is too young and doesn’t know what death is. Now she is the only one in the family who can still be happy.

Old Mrs. Tian lay down for a while, and after adjusting her mood, she sat up again and said to Tian Tian: "You can't play with An An here. Remember to call your brother and your brother. Tell them that your grandma passed away. Don't let them not know."

Tian Tian nodded, stood up and went to the village to make a phone call.

It’s their working hours at this time now. I wonder if they can answer the phone?

Tian Tian found the phone number of the provincial capital's machinery factory in the phone book and dialed it. After waiting for a while, a voice that Tian Tian was very familiar with answered the phone.

"Hello, this is the provincial machinery factory. Who are you looking for?"

When she called Gu Zhao before, it was this person who answered the call.

"Hello, I want to find Tian Zhuo, can you call him for me?"

"Okay, please wait a moment."

The call was hung up and the other party went to look for Tian Zhuo.

Tian Tian waited anxiously for a while, and chatted with her aunt who was looking at the phone. The phone finally rang, and she quickly picked up the phone. It was Tian Zhuo's voice on the other end of the phone, "Sister, are you calling me?"

"It's me, Tian Zhuo! Our grandma passed away, and our parents just passed away. I wanted to call you to see if you could come back."

"What?!" Tian Zhuo was also a little surprised when he heard the call.

"how come?!"

Although they all disliked Grandma Lin, they felt a little uncomfortable when they heard that an elder had left them.

"I'll take a leave and go back now." Tian Zhuo said on the other end of the phone, then hung up.

Tian Tian called Tian Yuan again. Although Tian Yuan answered the phone, he was not in the army. Tian Tian did not ask any more questions and hung up. Then she called Han Luying's department.

It turned out that Han Luying was not there either.

Tian Tian was a little helpless now. Finally, she had to call the same number she had called Tian Yuan just now. She told the operator that Tian Yuan's grandmother had passed away yesterday, and if Tian Yuan came back, please be sure to tell her. After the operator agreed, Tian Tian hung up the phone, paid the money to her aunt who was reading a book nearby, and prepared to go home.

When the aunt collected the money, she glanced at Tian Tian and said, "Your grandma passed away."

This news could not be hidden from everyone. Tian Tian nodded helplessly and smiled bitterly, "They came to look for my mother this morning and said that she died in her sleep last night."