Light Keeper

Chapter 684 May You Be Reliable 1
Cheng Guiqin married to Yunying Village in the nineteenth year, and lived there for the rest of her life.

Yunying Village is located in the mountains. It is rich in products. As long as you have hands and feet, you can live. At that time, it happened to be a turmoil and famine. Her father felt that having a stutter and living a stable life was better than anything else. , he didn’t even ask for a bride price and just married her off.

Her father was right in thinking, whether it was famine or turmoil, it seemed that it had no effect on Yunying Village, who was like a hermit.

Life in the village is simple, and the heaviest labor is just farming. The mountain roads are narrow and steep. Women from every household in the village will sit together under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village to weave homemade cloth and do needlework when they have nothing to do.

The sound of laughter pierced far and wide.

Since then, she has lived in Yunying Village, worked and farmed there, gave birth to children there, and said goodbye to her father, husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law there...

Yunying Village is like a gentle and kind mother, soothing her every pain.

But later, earth-shaking changes slowly took place outside. Wires were erected one by one, TVs had changed from black and white to wall-mounted, computers and mobile phones were updated from generation to generation, and because someone brought back a big-headed TV in the village When the computer was boiling, the outside world has entered the information age.

Because of the inconvenient transportation, Yunying Village seems to be forgotten somewhere in the world.

The homemade cloth with bright patterns dyed and woven with various plant fuels can no longer be exchanged for the daily necessities they usually use.

And the young people in the village went out one by one, and no one came back.

The children have seen the prosperity outside, so they don't want to live that kind of hard life in the village.

I don't know when, everything that her previous generation dreamed of has become the existence that her next generation has abandoned.

And she, who can't keep up with the times, has become an "old antique" in the mouth of her children and grandchildren. Every time I come back to see her, I don't care at all, only countless complaints.

Complain about the difficult mountain roads, the tiredness of fetching water, the bad signal, and the humidity in the bungalows...

"Mom, why don't you come live with us in the city!"

The eldest son said this at the New Year's dinner table when he was 40 years old.

In return, the eldest daughter-in-law kicked under the dining table.

She understands their troubles and remembers that when her eldest grandson was born, she took care of her daughter-in-law.

But the lingering dust and smoke and the starless night made her extremely uncomfortable.

Not only that, the crowded bus, the complicated road conditions, the messy vegetable market, and the hustle and bustle of the fast pace all made her panic and autistic at an early age.

The outside world has become bigger, but the inner world has become smaller.

In this city with a population of tens of millions, to her, she is only as small as herself!
Later, she returned to Yunying Village.

Because the daughter-in-law has a completely different attitude towards life from her, the two have frequent conflicts, and because the grandson has reached the age where he can be sent to a nursery school...

The village has not changed a bit since she left, like her parents waiting at home alone, waiting for her return, no matter when she comes back, they will always accept her with open arms and no grudges.

She thought that she would never leave here in this lifetime.

Since then, she really hasn't left here.

As the days pass, the former terraces become deserted little by little, and the farmers leave one by one.

The old Cheng Guiqin stood at the entrance of the village, watching the mountains that she had seen all her life.

Turning around, she looked at Yunying Village, which was as old as her, the former drying ground, the barren fields, and the radio horn on the telephone pole at the entrance of the village that hadn't sounded for several years...

The whole village was quiet and dusty.

Without the injection of young blood, the whole village, like her, entered the twilight.

The fate of the old village and the old woman seemed to be connected at that moment, and they were about to die together.

At that moment, Cheng Guiqin, who was already hunched over, suddenly had an impulse that she had never had before.

She can't change her own fate of dying, because she can't change the birth, old age, sickness and death of human beings.

But she wanted to change the fate of Yunying Village. She wanted this gentle and kind village to survive.

If possible, she hopes that Yunying Village, which has fallen into twilight, can have someone to rely on in old age!
The memories received this time are many and long. Cheng Guiqin lived in Yunying Village until she died. She was 98 when she died. The memories of more than 90 years made Song Shuyun dizzy.

Although she had already adapted to the fusion of mental power and soul power, it hadn't been completed after all, and the feeling of swelling in the head after a little stimulation was not much reduced because of the fusion of the two.

She sat up unsteadily from the old canopy bed, and rubbed the sweat on her head.

Click on the task panel.

"Mission: Let the elderly in Yunying Village have something to rely on. Mission reward: Unknown."

Looking at the task introduction that seemed to require a fee for one more task, Song Shuyun's mood was very complicated.

Now is the spring when Cheng Guiqin is 67 years old. A few days ago, another elder in the village passed away. The whole village is in a sad atmosphere.

After all, it is a village for the elderly, and every one of them will think of themselves when they see someone passing away.

Song Shuyun counted the time, thinking about how to complete the task.

There was a knock on the wooden door of the house.

"Guiqin! Guiqin!"

There was an old lady's voice at the door. That person's name was Sun Yuxiang. She was married at the same time as Cheng Guiqin. They were about the same age and had a good relationship. But they couldn't live without Cheng Guiqin. They would die in their 80s. Cheng Guiqin was still sad for a long time.

Song Shuyun quickly stood up from the bed, and was about to open the door for her, but who knows, she got up in a hurry, and even stretched her old waist.

Song Shuyun:......

She could only yell first.

"Wait a minute! I'll come over!"

He moved his old arms and legs again, held his waist and walked out.

Sun Yuxiang was lying on the wooden fence of her house and looked in. Together with her was an old man in the village, who was the uncle and brother of Cheng Guiqin's deceased husband, named Li Haishuan.

Most of the men in Yunying Village are named Li.

The old man was dressed in dusty old clothes of polyester cardboard, and the hems of his trousers were worn away. When he saw Song Shuyun, he said naively: "Second sister-in-law!"

Seeing that it was these two people, Song Shuyun immediately understood.

Because there are no two and a half people in every household in the village, every year when it comes to farming, a few old men and old ladies form a team to plant the land. These two people obviously came to ask her to go to the field.

Song Shuyun opened the wooden door and welcomed the two of them in.

"Hey! I fell asleep all of a sudden. If you don't call me, you don't know when you will wake up."

Sun Yuxiang walked in with a smile, took a water ladle and filled it with water, took two mouthfuls of water, and then handed the water to Li Haishuan.

Song Shuyun frowned twice, but said nothing.

(End of this chapter)