Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

Xu Niannian didn't know when he fell asleep.

When she woke up again, she found herself lying on her side on the back seat of the car. Everyone else was gone. Only the window on the side was half open, letting in fresh air.

Xu Niannian got up, stretched hard, and looked out the window at the scenery, only to find that the car had stopped in the yard of his grandfather's house. Outside the car window was a large field of farmland, and he looked around at the lush green fields.

She got off the car and walked to the door of her grandfather's house. She saw the whole family gathered around the coffee table in the living room, enjoying themselves, which made her feel a little confused for a moment, as if she was isolated from the world and did not belong there.

But the next second, Xu Xing in the room shouted to her: "You like to bask in the sun so much? Come in and eat watermelon!"

This sentence suddenly brought her back from the state of dissociation. Xu Niannian walked into the house, said hello to her grandparents, then sat down next to Xu Xing and took a bite out of his hand. Grab it.

Xu Xing: "...I've bitten them all."

"I don't dislike you." Xu Niannian took a bite, and the juice splashed out, "The food you snatched tastes sweet."

It was just nine o'clock in the morning, and the family had nothing to do, and they were all chatting around the living room.

Xu Xing's grandfather, Xu Lisong, was a cadre in the army in his early years. After he retired, the organization arranged for him to serve as the director of a state-owned factory.

But Xu Lisong felt that he did not have the ability, and finally could not shirk it, so he took on the idle position of deputy factory director.

Later, during the reform of state-owned enterprises at the end of the last century, many factories in non-core industries were spun off and became private enterprises. The same was true for Xu Lisong's factory.

Two brothers, Xu Jian and Xu Yi, grew up working in the factory. Xu Jian was more conservative in temperament. He entered the factory as an adult and worked his way up from the bottom to the deputy manager of the production department.

Xu Yi, on the other hand, wanted to be more out-of-the-box and unwilling to stay in the factory all the time. He studied computer science in college and embarked on a completely different path from his elder brother.

The factory where Xu Lisong works has branches in Shanghai and other provinces and cities. After years of operation, the scale is not small. It mainly produces some mechanical components and parts, including cameras and mobile phones. , providing electronic components supply for computers and other products.

Now Xu Lisong has retired long ago, leaving only Xu Jian still in the factory. Grandpa Xu Xing himself took his grandma Huang Xiuzhen back to his old house in the countryside, contracted a small piece of land, and lived from sunrise to sunrise every day. The little days of rest.

When it was almost ten o'clock, grandma Huang Xiuzhen called Sun Wanhui and Bi Wenli into the kitchen to prepare lunch.

Xu Jian and Xu Yi were driven to the backyard to smoke, while Xu Lisong sneaked into the farmland in front of his house and pulled some green vegetables, lettuce and the like, preparing to bring them back and fry them.

As soon as they said they were going to pick vegetables, Xu Suisui clamored to go with them, and even pulled Xu Xing along. Xu Niannian naturally wanted to follow, so the three little ones followed Xu Lisong's footsteps and ran towards the fields.

A few people played in the fields for more than an hour, sweating on their foreheads before they came back. After lunch, Xu Suisui went to take a nap, while Xu Niannian ran to the second floor and used the only computer in his grandfather's house. He used an old computer and continued to do his work. Xu Xing was a little moved when he saw it.

But after Xu Suisui woke up from his nap, Xu Xing was dragged to the fields again, and they fished, shrimped and snailed with her in the nearby stream and had a great time.

Xu Lisong, who was wearing a straw hat, sat on the mound beside the creek, squinting in the sun and smiling with wrinkles on his face, watching the two children playing in the water just below their calves.

When Xu Xing got tired from playing, he sat down next to his grandfather to rest. Xu Lisong took off his straw hat, pressed it on Xu Xing's head, and handed over the kettle he had brought.

"Sui Sui is going to junior high school soon?" Xu Lisong took out a pack of crumpled cigarettes from his pocket, took out the last one and held it in his hand.

"Well, my aunt has applied for two private schools to see which one she can get into. If not, she will go to a public school." Seeing his grandfather about to smoke, Xu Xing reached out and grabbed his cigarette, stuffed it into his mouth and held it in his mouth, "You sir

You'd better stop smoking this stuff and live a few more years until I can give you a great-grandchild."

"You brat." Xu Lisong stared at him, then laughed, took out a lighter and asked, "You know how to smoke? You didn't learn bad things in high school, right?"

"I don't smoke." Xu Xing shook his head repeatedly, biting the cigarette butt and playing with it.

In his previous life, he didn't smoke when he was in school. It wasn't until work and family pressure became too great after work that he would smoke one or two cigarettes occasionally. After being reborn, he would naturally not touch such a thing that is harmful to the body.

You should never be short of money in this life, so there's no need to hang on to it.

"Where's that girl Nian Nian? Why doesn't she come to play?" Xu Lisong asked again.

"She is busy. She found a part-time job to draw on the computer." Xu Xing said with a smile, thinking that she would rather work for your grandson.

"Oh, cough." Xu Lisong coughed a few times, coughed up phlegm hard in his throat, took out his tea cup, unscrewed the lid, took a sip, and sighed contentedly, "What about you kid?

What do you plan to study in college?”

"Computer, just like uncle." Xu Xing looked at his grandfather coughing and responded, deep in thought.

His grandfather was a soldier of the older generation. During his service, he received second-class merit once and third-class merit twice. When Xu Xing was a child, Xu Xing often played with the three medals as toys.

Logically speaking, even if the Xu Xing family's savings were unsustainable due to some changes in their previous life, at least Xu Lisong could still help his son.

But in fact, Xu Lisong worked as deputy director in the factory, and his monthly salary was only two or three times higher than that of ordinary workers. The most valuable thing was an apartment in the Shanghai city.

Later, the apartment was demolished, and this is where the two brothers Xu Jian and Xu Yi now live.

In addition, after Xu Lisong retired in 2000, he probably saved hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Ordinarily, old men and women can return to the countryside without spending much money, and they can also receive a lot of pension every month, so they basically don’t have to use their own savings.

But later Xu Xing learned that Xu Lisong would visit his comrades in arms every year. Some were still alive, but many had passed away. He could only bring strong drinks to meet in the cemetery.

Some of his comrades-in-arms had relatively difficult families, and Xu Lisong helped whenever he could. He even provided financial support for several college students to attend their studies.

It has to be said at this point that Xu Jian's personality is very similar to that of his father.

When there was a fire in the factory, several employees who suffered burn injuries had signed temporary contracts. If we simply went through the legal process, the factory would not have to bear any medical liability at all and would just have to pay a small amount of compensation.

Xu Jian paid part of the expenses after the burn.

Even though he had actually been fired by the factory at that time.

After that, their family's situation took a turn for the worse, and there were several twists and turns. In the end, they almost didn't even have enough money to pay for Xu Xing's tuition.

But what Xu Xing is thinking about now is not these, but his grandfather Xu Lisong.

In 2012, Xu Xing in his previous life was not very observant. It was not until around 2016 that his family noticed that Xu Lisong was always coughing, and it was getting worse and worse, and he even occasionally coughed up blood.

Xu Lisong originally kept it secret, but after Huang Xiuzhen discovered it, the family dragged him to the hospital, where it was found that he had advanced lung cancer.

Thinking of this, Xu Xing's expression turned serious and his eyes became serious.

It's only 2012, so maybe it's not too late.