silent farm

Chapter 303 Birthday Blessings (Saturday Weekend)
The Mo family used to be a landlord, and the old house was once confiscated.Later, the policy was changed, and the descendants of these confiscated properties can ask the state to recover them.And the old house of the Mo family happened to be still there, and the Mo family did not directly pursue it, but bought it back with money.

The old house of the Mo family was located in the countryside before, but now it has become a fringe area between urban and rural areas.Li Sheng was in a small square at the entrance, feeling a little dazed from this house with obvious characteristics of a southern water town.

Mo Xiran was already waiting for them at the door, and when he saw them coming, he brought them into the house.After entering the door, Li Sheng found that the house was not small.After passing the gatehouse, there is a small yard.

"The birthday banquet is being held in the lobby." Mo Xiran led them through the main hall. "Grandma lives in the backyard, I'll take you there."

Li Sheng walked forward, remembering that a lot of cars had parked outside just now, and asked, "A lot of guests have come?"

"Well, quite a few relatives have arrived." As they spoke, they had passed through the yard with a pond in the middle.

It might be the first time for Tia to enter such a house, and she couldn't help but say, "Sister Xiran, your house is really big."

Although Mo Xiran invited her several times, she never agreed to come because of Li Sheng's unclear attitude.Today is the first time I have seen ancient Chinese architecture.

Mo Xiran smiled and said: "This is the house left by our ancestors. I heard that it has a history of nearly 200 years. But it has only been 30 years since it was brought back. During this period, some expansions have been made and modern decorations have also been done. .In the lobby, the two side halls were dismantled and turned into a banquet hall. The banquet will be held there later.”

As she spoke, she led the two of them to turn to one side, and said, "Let's go see grandma first."

After a while, they came to the backyard.Mo Xiran led them to the right wing.They happened to meet a middle-aged man and woman coming out of the wing at the door of the backyard.

"Uncle and aunt of the Qin family!" Mo Xiran greeted them with a smile.

The man just responded.The middle-aged woman smiled and said, "It's Xiran. Just now Xiaohao said why he didn't see you and went to the front to look for you. Didn't you see him?"

Mo Xiran smiled and said, "Cousin Hao? I haven't seen it, maybe I've fallen in love with that young lady again."

The aunt said with a smile: "That's okay. My Xiaohao is a good boy." But she seemed to have no confidence in what she said, and turned to look at Li Sheng and Tia to change the subject and ask. "These two are..."

Li Sheng and Tia stood together like a pair of golden boys and girls, and she couldn't help but ignore it.But what matters most to her is what is the relationship between Mo Xiran and Li Sheng.Although Li Sheng and Tia are holding hands, Tia looks too small, which makes people feel that they are brother and sister.

Not to mention, after Tia made up, she looked like a Chinese girl.

"This is my cousin."

Li Sheng found that although Mo Xiran responded with a smile, there was not much intimacy in his words.Since Mo Xiran also planned to introduce, he just nodded without saying anything.

"Uncle and aunt of the Qin family are going to the front hall. Let's go to pay grandma's birthday first."

After hearing this, the middle-aged couple laughed and said a few words and walked forward.

Mo Xiran led Li Sheng and the others into the backyard and whispered, "Brother, if those two people came to you just now, just ignore them."

Li Sheng was taken aback for a moment. He just noticed that Mo Xiran was a little cold. He didn't want to be disgusted: "Why, did they offend you?"

"They are the third grandma's natal family, so it's okay to rely on our Mo family to earn some money. The boy in his family is an uneducated dandy and playboy, but he pretends to be a young man who is motivated. I don't care about those things. But he didn't even look at what he was doing, he even pretended to be in front of my parents and pestered me endlessly."

Li Sheng chuckled and said, "Are you afraid that your parents will have some kind of marriage?"

"I won't look for them in marriage. I think it's great if I have a small amount of money. I don't care about virtue." Mo Xiran seemed really depressed, and it was the first time Li Sheng saw her being so mean.

Mo Xiran said angrily: "Don't talk about them anymore, it makes me angry. Let's go in."

The door of the wing was open.They walked in, and there was an old lady sitting in the middle, wearing a purple silk auspicious dress embroidered with the word "Shou", accompanied by three middle-aged women.One looked to be in his fifties, and he looked a little rich, while the other looked younger, looking no older than forty.

The old lady already had age spots on her face, and her reaction was a little slow.Li Sheng remembered that Mo Jingran had said that his grandmother had Parkinson's syndrome, so it must have been his grandmother.

Mo Xiran was already smiling and calling out: "Grandma, Second Aunt, Third Aunt, Mom. This is Cousin Li Sheng, he's here to pay grandma's birthday."

The old lady looked at Li Sheng, as if a little puzzled.

Li Sheng looked into her eyes and pursed his lips, then pulled Tia into the small hall and knelt down.Seeing him like this, Tia knelt down beside him and kowtowed three times.After kowtowing, Li Sheng still knelt and said, "Grandma, I wish you a long life like Nanshan and happiness like the East China Sea."

The old lady blinked her eyes and spit out a few words: "Okay! I have a heart!"

Li Sheng presented the present with both hands, Mo Xiran took it first, and the old lady said, "Grandma, this is a birthday present that Cousin Cheng managed to find. But I haven't seen it before."

The old lady smiled at her, looked at Li Sheng suspiciously, then at Tia, and finally at the second daughter-in-law beside her: "These two children grow up well, which family are they from?"

The daughters-in-law of the Mo family all knew the old lady's heart disease, so they didn't know what to say at this meeting.

The old lady wanted to say in a daze, "You don't remember either?" She smiled and said to Li Sheng and Tia. "They are all relatives, and we will have more contacts in the future. I don't know anyone anymore."

Li Sheng pursed his lips and didn't know what to say, so he said after a long time, "Grandma, I am the son of your daughter Mo Zhiting. My name is Li Sheng."

The old lady opened her mouth and saliva flowed out.She just looked at him fixedly.

Mo Xiran hurried to wipe the corners of her mouth with a wet tissue.

Aunt Li Sheng, who was sitting next to the old lady, hurriedly stood up and stroked her back, and said, "Mom, this is the fifth aunt's child who came to wish you birthday."

The old lady stretched out her hand and said to Li Sheng, "Son, come here."

Li Sheng let go of Tia's hand, walked over quickly, and said, "Grandma."

The old lady just held his hand with her skinny hand, her mouth trembled a few times but she couldn't speak, and finally burst into tears, she said: "Okay, it's all this big. Very good! Very good!" She said Then wept.

"Grandma, today is your happy day, why are you crying?" Mo Xiran coaxed the old lady like a child. "It's not pretty to cry anymore."

The old lady only held Li Sheng's hand tightly, and did not take her eyes off his face for even a second.It took a long time to slowly stop the tears, and said: "It's very similar! It's very similar! Okay." Then he looked at Tia who was standing in the middle and was a little helpless, and asked. "This girl, you are my sister? Why don't you come and let grandma see."

Li Sheng waved to Tia.

Tia came over cautiously: "Grandma, my name is Tia!"

"Tia?" The old lady looked at Li Sheng in confusion.

Li Sheng said: "Tia is my fiancée and your future granddaughter-in-law."

Hearing what he said, the old lady's cloudy eyes showed light, she stretched out her other hand to hold Tia's hand, and said, "Okay, okay! She's a good girl. You have to live a good life in the future, understand?"

Tia glanced at Li Sheng, blushed and nodded.

The second aunt Li Sheng saw that the old lady's mood had stabilized at this moment, and hurriedly said, "Mom, you make the child ashamed by looking at you."

The old lady laughed and said, "There's nothing to be ashamed of when a man is married and a woman is married." She thought for a while, and then said to Li Sheng. "This is your second aunt, that is your third aunt. And your fourth aunt."

Li Sheng called people one by one.Both his second aunt and third aunt seemed very enthusiastic, but Mo Xiran's mother just responded with a smile.Li Sheng didn't feel slighted either.He knew that the fourth aunt had depression.

The old lady held hands and asked over and over again: How old are you?What work do you do?When will you be married? ...

Li Sheng knew that the old lady's mind was a bit chaotic, so she answered them one by one without any impatience.The third aunt who knew him said, "Mom, why don't you let Li Sheng and the others go to the front to get close to his cousins ​​and cousins."

The old lady looked at her for a while, then nodded and said, "Yes, yes. It's time to get closer!"

Li Sheng and Mo Xiran walked out of the wing room, feeling a little blocked for some reason.Before he came, I thought about how to face it.Now that I see people, the resentment in my heart seems to be superfluous.

Mo Xiran was also depressed.After walking out of the courtyard, she said faintly: "Grandma looked confused, but she seems to have guessed that sister-in-law..."

Li Sheng pursed his lips and nodded, and said, "Don't talk about this in front of his old man in the future." The old lady asked him a lot, but she didn't ask his mother or her daughter.Maybe it's because she already has the answer in her heart, but she doesn't dare to pursue the answer, fearing that the answer is what she thinks in her heart.

Mo Xiran said, "But it might be even worse if grandma thinks about it."

Li Sheng was silent.

"Brother, you should come and visit her more often in the future." Mo Xiran was a little sad.The youngest of her peers in the family is also the one the old lady loves the most.Now the old lady's health is getting worse every day. She knows that this is an inevitable stage of human beings, but she still can't let go.

Li Sheng nodded and said, "As long as I come back, I will come back to see her old man."

Mo Xiran added: "Grandma seems to like Tia very much, I will bring Tia back to visit her more in the future, is that okay?"

Li Sheng glanced at Tia.

Tia nodded quickly.She felt that Li Sheng would not ignore the old lady.

Seeing her agreeing, Li Sheng said to Mo Xiran, "Then if you have time, take her around more often."

They walked slowly and talked, and before they knew it, they came to the garden behind the front hall.

"Xi Ran, are you here?" A young man rushed out from the front hall.

Li Sheng saw that Mo Xiran's face sank when he heard this voice.It was obvious that the person who came was not her friend or anything.

(End of this chapter)