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Chapter 332 Early Death

Si Ningning and Si Zhennan broke up unhappy at the platform. She started her journey home on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month and went to Si's house on the 28th. She stayed at Si's house for only one day and experienced so much.

The whole thing went round and round, and finally, on the afternoon of the 29th, I got on the train back to Province H again.

Amidst the sound of the train moving forward, Si Ningning put her elbows on the table and put her hands on her forehead to cover her eyes. Under the smoky blue afterglow of the evening, she was the only one in the huge carriage going against the road. So,

Lonely, so exhausted...

At about the same time, the entire Mo family in Beijing set off from the Diaoyutai compound in Ganzikou, rushing back to their old home in Guxiang to celebrate the New Year before nightfall.

Mom Mo and her two daughters were busy in the kitchen. Dad Mo, who had a shaved head and slightly white temples, was holding a cigarette butt in his mouth. While repairing the broken parts in the yard of the old house, he was nagging into the house and occasionally talking.

Can't stop coughing a few words:

"There's a crackdown everywhere outside. I've told you so many times, don't put those things out, don't put those things out, but you won't listen! Ahem—"

"You just want to piss me off, don't you?"

At first, Father Mo just stretched his neck and chattered into the house. The more he talked, the more he talked. He stopped repairing things. He stopped at the door of the living room and shouted at the old and retro wooden door of the main house:

"What good will it do you to make me angry to death? If you make me angry, I won't come back next time!"

"It's Chinese New Year, please stop talking..."

"If you don't come back, get out! Go back to your Diaoyutai compound!"

Mo's mother poked her head out of the kitchen, but before she could finish her sentence, an old lady wearing an old-fashioned late Qing Dynasty gown with silver hair all over her head suddenly came out of the main room, ran up to Mo's father with her little feet, and grabbed her.

Father Mo’s ears started beating and scolding:

"You are a heartless person who never forgets his roots! Then the person above is your biological father, how can you say that?"

Grandma Mo was quite tall when she was young, but now that she is older and her bones have shrunk, she is now a short old lady about one and a half meters tall. According to her height, she can’t even reach Father Mo’s ears. It’s more like Father Mo took the initiative to bring his ears closer to hers.

In front of me, as if to let her pull.

"There are all the little cubs in this courtyard, and you are the father? What can you teach the little cubs to do?"

Grandma Mo scolded her while beating her with a stern face. Father Mo was a very old man and he didn't dare to resist when he was beaten. While staying silently, he also had to talk back to Grandma Mo from time to time.

This happens every year when I come back. After a while of quarrels between the elder and the elder, Mother Mo led the children out of the kitchen to persuade them to make peace. After coaxing her for a long time, she coaxed Grandma Mo back into the house to sit down.

After letting the old man miss his grandson for more than half a year, Mo's father sent his daughters to clean up the room where they slept at night, and worked in the kitchen with Mo's mother. During this period, Mo's father's exaggerated expression faded away, and he said resolutely and calmly: "Look

My body is still strong, no worse than last year."

Mo's mother glared at him sideways: "Tell me about you. There are many ways to understand my mother's physical condition. After so many years, you have learned this trick... After all, you are an older person, and your mental endurance is priority. You said that you are being

What should you do if you are angry?"

Mo's father rubbed his hair and asked Mo's mother: "Will you come back next time?"

"I can't." Mo's mother waved her hands quickly.

My mother-in-law was a lady in the late Guangxu period. Although she was reasonable and never criticized others, Mo's mother had been educated by the new organization, so she and her old man still didn't get along. This was why the entire Mo family usually lived in the compound and never came back.

main reason.

"Mom likes Abei. If you want to give the lyrics to Abei, can you just let Abei do it in the future?"

"It's good to pay attention to this." Father Mo said "hmm" in a neutral tone and approved the proposal.

If it works, he won't have to rush up and have his ears plucked in the future.

To be honest, it's quite embarrassing in front of the kids at home.

In the kitchen, the couple were planning to dump the pot, while on the other side, on the kang in the main room, the scapegoat Mo Bei sat quietly on one side of the kang table, watching Grandma Mo groping around the room, and finally took out two cans from the old cupboard.

The malted milk was pushed along the small table to his hand.

Grandma Mo smiled kindly and said, "The first one just bought it. I will take it with me when I leave tomorrow and take it back to drink with my sisters."

Grandma Mo thought highly of Mo Bei, but she was never biased towards the other two girls of the Mo family.

"We have it at home, grandma keeps it for herself to drink."

"Is what your mother bought the same thing as what grandma bought? Keep it!"

The old lady kept a straight face when she got angry, but Mo Bei was not a coaxer, so he had to keep silent and compromise.

This time, besides having a reunion dinner during the Chinese New Year, Mo Bei actually had something else on his mind.

This matter is indirectly related to Mo’s father’s previous nagging in the courtyard...

Grandma Mo was born at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. She was a good lady, but she received the education of that period. In addition to being nostalgic in her bones, she also ate fast and chanted Buddha, and she also had some calculation skills.

The current season is very sensitive, and these things that Grandma Mo is tinkering with are not allowed, especially under the conditions and background of the Mo family, it is even more sensitive among sensitives.

Grandma Mo usually doesn't do anything, so just around the New Year, she will still put out the incense table and ancestor tablets, and worship with the door closed. Father Mo knows her well, so he always takes advantage of this time to say a few words...

Of course, Mo Bei's purpose is not to let Grandma Mo calculate his future and fortune for him.

Mo Bei just feels that he is so confused now. If no one guides him or wakes him up, he may inadvertently do something wrong and hurt others, or in other words, he may regret it for half his life...

Thinking of this, Mo Beiling pursed his lips and lowered his head slightly, and couldn't help but tighten the hands in front of his knees.

Grandma Mo sat across the kang table next to Mo Bei, enjoying a moment of immersion. She turned her head, her wrinkled and old face was lined with smiles, and she asked kindly:

"Did our Abei encounter any difficulties?"

Mo Beiling opened and pursed his lips, pursed and opened them again. He hesitated for a long time, carefully considered his words before speaking slowly:

"Grandma, I have fallen in love with someone."

"Oh? When you came back last year, your mother said that you didn't have the awakening. Let me just say, it's not that you don't have the awakening, it's just that the time hasn't come... Hehe, Abei, tell me, whose girl is she from?"

"Her surname is Si, and she is also an educated youth. We went to the countryside..."

Night fell outside the window, and the slightly swaying flame of the kerosene lamp in the room coated Mo Bei's body with a layer of warm golden rim. Mo Bei tilted his head and looked at Grandma Mo, his eyes flickering, and his voice was like the frost of late autumn, slightly cool and pure, "She

I am also from Beijing, and my home is in the alley next to this alley."

There were no entertainment projects in this era. When people were free, they mostly moved benches to chat together, or walked among neighbors to pass the time.

The alleys in front and back are so close. Grandma Mo has lived in this courtyard since she married into the Mo family. The Si family is also an old resident here, so after Mo Bei said his surname was Si, he lived in the alley next door. Grandma Mo instantly

You know who he is talking about.

"I'm the one who is the engineer?" Although Grandma Mo asked, after her words fell, she immediately said Si Ningning's name again: "Is your name Ningning?"

Mo Bei was stunned at first, then nodded slowly after reacting.

For a period of time after that, Mo Bei rarely spoke. He mostly listened to Grandma Mo lamenting about what she knew and some hearsay about the Si family:

"That child had a hard life. His mother passed away early, and his father was busy working and didn't care. He was still young at that time, and he couldn't be much higher than the table, right?" Grandma Mo stretched out her hand and gestured, and continued.

Said: "There are no adults at home, so a little girl like that is guarding the yard eating and drinking by herself, and she can still go to school..."

"People say that children from poor families become masters early. This is not entirely true. Children who are unprotected and unloved are the most mature... Huaguduo, who should be innocent and innocent, is ripened early by family and the world.

How pitiful?"

Grandma Mo believed in Buddhism and was kind-hearted at heart. As she talked, she felt very uncomfortable in her heart.

But now that the topic has turned to Si Ningning, Grandma Mo couldn't help but feel a little indignant when she thought about what she had heard in the past two days:

"Her father is not a good person either. He and your father were classmates in the past, and they all learned about writing and rulers. I didn't see that he was so unworthy at that time. He married a second wife and abused his daughter. Today

My son was still making a fuss in the morning, and the little girl’s face was..."

Having said this, it seemed that she was afraid that Mo Bei would feel uncomfortable. Grandma Mo waved her hands and sighed without saying any more. Instead, she changed her words and said:

"Everything in our family is open-minded. Just do what you like. Ask your mother to find someone to talk to you later. If the girl is willing, it doesn't matter if she spends more money. I can give it...just a little."

Grandma Mo nodded on the table and told Mo Bei seriously: "Old Mo's family are all rules-abiding people. When you get married, you should be treated well. There is no such thing as divorce if you don't divorce your wife. That child's life will be miserable. If you really treat him badly,

Marrying her home is her second life, Abei, what you are thinking about should be how to make up for her previous suffering."

These words made it seem as if Si Ningning would soon be Mo Bei's daughter-in-law. Mo Bei blushed for a while, and under Grandma Mo's close gaze, he made an oath. But after he finished speaking, he became depressed again:

"But, grandma, I like her, but this matter..."

Mo Bei was in a dilemma. He had already fallen into a misunderstanding of love and was reluctant to give up. But if he continued, he would not be able to do anything to destroy other people's feelings. He would struggle over and over again. In the end, he would be the one who suffered.

Mo Bei spoke in a disorderly manner. At the end of the sentence, the child prodigy and little genius who had always been widely praised by the courtyard was as confused as a lost child at this moment.

Grandma Mo had a rough understanding of the situation. Mo Bei was her grandson, and she naturally knew his temper, so she knew Mo Bei's dilemma.

After a short silence, Grandma Mo sighed softly and spoke slowly:

"Abei, you already have the answer in your heart."

"Then what are you worried about?"

Grandma Mo gently picked up Mo Bei's hand that was resting on her knees, squeezed it first and then patted it gently. She said with a charitable smile: "Just do it and implement it if you think about it. The important thing is not the result, but the process. People

This life may be long or short, so don’t let yourself have any regrets.”

A few short sentences have already expressed Grandma Mo's attitude.

Even so, Mo Bei still asked: "Grandma, can I do it?"

"Yes, why not?" Grandma Mo asked happily, and then said: "When you choose this path, it means that you have subconsciously accepted the difficulties you are about to face, and in this life, even if you have not taken this path,

On other roads, you will also encounter other difficulties, and it will not be smooth sailing until the end."

If that's the case, what are you still worried about?

It is better to perfect yourself and follow your heart.

Mo Bei did have his own ideas, but without support, he would inevitably fall into hesitation inadvertently. Now after Grandma Mo's words of advice, he suddenly became more enlightened.

"Grandma, thank you, I know what to do."

"Good boy." Grandma Mo praised with a smile and muttered, "Our Abei has really grown up", and then sent Mo Bei out to see if dinner was okay.

After Mo Bei left, the main house became colder. Grandma Mo closed the door and closed the windows. She bent down and rummaged under the old wardrobe for a long time. With the weak light of the kerosene lamp, she squinted and dug out a pair of broken jars from a pile.

A crescent-shaped pair of cards and an old, yellowed leather paper.

Returning to the kang table, Grandma Mo sat quietly for a moment. After worrying about it, she decided to do a fortune-telling for her descendants.

Grandma Mo knew the birth dates of Mo Bei, and because Si Ningning was a close neighbor, Grandma Mo also knew roughly. She cleared the debris on the kang table, and recited the birth dates of the two of them in her mind, and played the cards up and down.

I tossed it three times to see the yin and yang, and finally calculated based on the hexagrams shown on the sign against the traditional Chinese table locked on the paper.

It was originally intended that the two of them had a close relationship, but when analyzing Si Ningning’s horoscope in depth, Grandma Mo’s dry fingers finally stopped on a word on the paper:

--tender.

Grandma Mo was stunned.

The string picks and breaks at the thinnest point, and fate only plays tricks on the poor...

That child had a hard life. His mother died early, and he was not cherished by his father...

Grandma Mo originally thought that if the child had a fate with her grandson, and if her grandson liked it, it would be a happy event in the future, and he would take it back to his home and cherish it, but she didn't expect that Si Ningning would meet him.

It is the destiny to die young.

Early death. Anyone who dies before the age of twenty can be called early death. Counting his zodiac sign, Si Ningning is already eighteen years old now, and is only two years away from turning twenty...

Two years...

Grandma Mo's sparse and furrowed eyebrows relaxed, she sighed and put away the old items.

There is no need to calculate any further.

Grandma Mo kept her mind on her mind and finished her dinner absentmindedly. Before going to bed, her daughter-in-law gave her water to soak her feet. She then waved to Mo Bei and whispered:

"Grandma is getting older, and there are still a few years left to live that are uncertain. There are some things grandma has to say to you. You should remember them."

Mo Bei wanted to interrupt Grandma Mo, but it could be seen that her expression was not as good as in the evening. After thinking about it, it was best to nod obediently and listen silently.

Grandma Mo said: "You are the only boy in the Mo family. You have to remember that you will be the one to pick the pillars of the Mo family in the future. And your two sisters are both siblings. When you become rich in the future, you will also be relied on by the sisters.

, is their confidence, do you know?"

Mo Bei responded solemnly, "Grandma, I know all this."

(End of chapter)