Rebirth Autumn Returns to the Countryside

"Qiu'er, what do you want to do?"

"Let's build a simple vegetable greenhouse." Leng Yanqiu explained, "I just heard the hens crow several times. They should have laid new eggs. Let's eat the milk."

Grandma Leng was a little stunned. Her granddaughter was always like this. No matter whether she was scolded or beaten with a cane, her expression remained unchanged, as if nothing unpleasant had happened.

The old man was so angry in the old house that he felt suffocated. This was because he had grown old and had controlled his temper. When he was young, how could he not have made everything go according to his wishes?

"Oh, okay." Grandma Leng took a few steps, turned behind the few people, and followed them silently.

I was so confused that I resisted asking, why did they build a greenhouse? How much would it cost? Why can't I just worry less about my granddaughter?

Girls of fifteen or sixteen are either studying foolishly or thinking about tying their hair, changing their clothes, putting on makeup and finding a partner. Who would think of spending money to build a greenhouse?

Grandma Leng endured the pain in her hands and waited until the two middle-aged men left.

"Qiu'er, are you still in pain? Have you gone to the pharmacy to get medicine?" Grandma Leng asked the affectionate question first.

Leng Yanqiu blinked in confusion, then subconsciously touched her arm. Pain was something far away from her, and she would not apply medicine for a minor bruise.

She shook her head and bent down to pull out the newly grown weeds in the vegetable patch.

Grandma Leng breathed a sigh of relief, followed her granddaughter's movements, and continued to ask: "Qiu'er, do you really want to build a greenhouse? I heard that it would cost hundreds of thousands of yuan, and our family can't afford it. Did you give them money? How much did you give?"

Thinking about the greenhouse that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, the old lady felt anxious. If her husband heard about it, he would start swinging his walking stick again. What a waste of money!

Leng Yanqiu: "I can't afford such an expensive one, so I asked someone to come and take a look and build a simple earthen shed. The cost is about 30,000 yuan. I have already paid, and I can get the materials and start construction tomorrow."

So, just now, three people used their phones to talk to each other and the money went to someone else? More than 30,000 yuan, more than 30,000 yuan...

Grandma Leng placed her hand on her chest, her eyes filled with sadness.

"You child, you child, ah!"

Leng Yanqiu stepped forward to support the old lady, led her to the jujube tree, and made her sit down.

"Don't be anxious. Take your time."

The old lady's turbid tears rolled down, and her voice was full of disappointment and even despair.

"Qiu'er, your parents divorced and didn't take you with them. It was grandma who raised you and never treated you badly, right? I fed you well, clothed you, and paid for your studies. But when you got into trouble at school and people came to our house and demolished it, did grandma ever blame you? Now that you've grown up and can take care of us old people, you said you were the one in charge of the family and had the money, so grandma agreed to you. But at such a young age, you insisted on holding 50,000 yuan by yourself. 50,000 yuan! You're willing to make grandpa and grandma angry and not give it to us. Fine, you can hold it, but grandma never expected that you would actually dare to spend it all!"

The old lady's tearful accusation was so sad.

She pointed at the row of houses again and said, "Qiu'er, you are a girl. Did you feel uncomfortable living in such a big yard by yourself yesterday? Do you think that if people in this village knew that you lived alone, no one would come to bully you? If your grandparents didn't dislike you and asked you to live with us, you would have been bullied to death!"

I'm crying and my nose is full of snot, it's really sad.

Leng Yanqiu brought out a glass of water and handed it to him, his expression unchanged, and asked, "Do you always think about it?"

"I'm thinking, what am I thinking?" Grandma Leng's rhythm was disrupted. She drank several sips of water before she could continue. "Now, hurry up, use that phone and tell people that we are not going to build any greenhouses, and ask them to return the money to us! You are young and don't know how many greenhouses were built at a waste of money and finally lost everything."

"Oh." Leng Yanqiu responded without moving to pick up his phone, "Anything else?"

"And, and..." Grandma Leng fumbled for a handkerchief and wiped her face clean, saying earnestly, "Qiu'er, you are grown up now, and you can get married and start a family soon. Grandma can no longer indulge you. You should return the money for the greenhouse and the rent, and come back to live with grandma. You don't know the seriousness of this. If a little girl lives outside by herself, won't people gossip about her behind her back? How can you talk about marriage in the future?"

"Oh." Leng Yanqiu responded again.

Grandma Leng was very relieved. She put the cup of water on the edge of the pool and continued towards the end of success: "You have lived alone for a night. You should have learned your lesson. You can't live without adults, right? We two old people may die one day and can't take care of you. You still have to rely on your father, right? While your father is willing to take you to Haishi to live a good life, you should calm down and wait for him to come. Alas, you have been looking forward to following your father when you were a child. Now you can finally get what you want. When you get there, you can't be so opinionated. You have to take good care of your younger brother. Our Leng family is counting on this only child. If your younger brother has a bright future, will you suffer as his sister?"

"Is there anything else?" Leng Yanqiu asked again when she saw the old lady stop.

Grandma Leng's throat was about to smoke. This whole persuasion and education was so tiring. A glass of water was of no use at all.

"That's all for now. Call us and ask for our money back. I'll teach you slowly when we get home. There are ways to take care of a kid. I'll teach you how to feed him, coax him, and take care of his poop and pee."

I feel like I have a heavy responsibility on my shoulders and I have to pass on the secrets step by step. I really can't tell her if she's not my granddaughter.

Leng Yanqiu quickly went to the vegetable garden, picked a handful of various vegetables, tied them up with grass stems, and handed them to Grandma Leng.

"Grandma, I'll take you out." She helped the confused old lady up with one hand.

Today's performance was purely to add to the drama. She had previously thought that the old man would have to overcome Leng Zhiqiang after he ran out of tricks, but she didn't expect the old lady's singing, reciting, acting and fighting to be so perfect. If she had lived a shorter life, she would have been moved to tears.

Leng Yanqiu couldn't be moved. This plot didn't happen in her previous life. She didn't even have the chance to go to Haishi to meet the only younger brother of the Leng family who had golden light.

Now that she had the chance in this life, she just felt disgusted and didn't look forward to feeding, coaxing, or changing her baby's pee and poop.

"Hey you, grandma is waiting for you to call her on the phone, waiting for you to go home together, hey Qiu'er——"

Grandma Leng felt again the feeling of being dragged around by her granddaughter when her family came to demolish the house. She arrived outside the courtyard gate in a daze, and the gate was closed and bolted.

She knocked on the door twice, and a few gossipy villagers came up to her and said, "Grandma Qiu, your house has been busy these past two days? How come your Qiu'er didn't move with the family and is left here alone? Did her grandfather beat the child the other day? I could hear the noise from half a mile away..."