The man was very old. According to the information, he was almost ninety years old.
He was said to be very taciturn in the nursing home and did not like to participate in group activities.
In addition to eating, sleeping and watching the scenery every day, I also read books.
His children are also old and cannot visit him often, and his grandchildren come even less often.
Gu Nianzhi and Huo Shaoheng followed the volunteer group over.
The two of them were new here, so they both watched what others did and copied what they were doing.
Gu Nianzhi observed for a while and found that there seemed to be no certain rules.
The volunteers talked in groups of twos and threes with the elderly in the nursing home, played games, played cards, played mahjong, sang, performed opera, played the erhu, and played the pipa. It was like eight immortals crossing the sea, each showing his or her magical powers.
Gu Nianzhi was amazed.
She quietly said to Huo Shaoheng: "The people who come to see these old people are all middle-aged and elderly people..."
Young people do not come to volunteer in nursing homes.
Huo Shaoheng said calmly: "Everyone has sympathy, especially when you are about to enter old age."
Gu Nianzhi nodded and followed him slowly walking on the lawn in front of the nursing home building.
The lawn was lush and green, and as she walked there, the morning dew wet her and her trousers.
Arriving under the tree where the man was, Gu Nianzhi smiled and handed over a book they had prepared, and said, "Hello, we are a volunteer group. You are in a good mood today."
Gu Nianzhi was a very talkative person. Regardless of whether the person responded or not, she almost forcibly put the book on the person's lap and continued: "This book is very interesting. It is a novel written by It happened decades ago, are you interested?"
After hearing this, the man pushed her book to the ground indifferently and said stiffly: "I'm not interested. I never read novels."
Gu Nianzhi could hardly control his expression, "You never read novels?! Then what do you do in your spare time?"
The man frowned and said, "What do I do in my spare time? What does it have to do with you?"
I really can’t talk today...
Gu Nianzhi blinked, quickly changed the subject, and said, "It's none of my business, I'm just curious. Sir, what were you looking at just now?"
The man's face brightened slightly, he lowered his head and said, "The ants are moving. What can you see under the tree? Of course, there are only ants moving."
Gu Nianzhi walked over, bent down, and followed the ants moving under the big tree.
I saw ants busily carrying things into a pile of relatively loose soil under the big tree.
Gu Nianzhi smiled and said, "... Are you going to move to Dahuaian Country?"
The man raised his head and looked at Gu Nianzhi in surprise. His voice became much softer and less harsh. He asked, "Do you know Dahuai Anguo?"
"I know." Gu Nianzhi straightened up, stood under the tree, and said with his hands behind his back: "It's from a dream in Nanke. Chun Yufen accidentally entered the country of Da Huai'an in a dream, married a princess and became his consort, and gave birth to five sons and two daughters. He had a prominent official position. , but when he woke up, he found that he had just had a dream, and the so-called 'Dahuai Anguo' was just an ant hole under the big locust tree in front of his house."
"Yes, life is just a dream, an empty joy." The man sighed longly and became even more depressed.
Seeing that he seemed to be very touched, Gu Nianzhi immediately took the opportunity to ask: "Why do you say that? I think life is not a dream. Although everyone will return to dust and dust in the end, the meaning of life is originally It’s not about the results, it’s about the experience.”
The man raised his head, looked at Gu Nianzhi with a smile, and said kindly: "It's really interesting to talk to young people. They are really full of life. Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers..."
Gu Nianzhi: "..."
She really wanted to take a look at herself in the mirror to see if there was something wrong with the modification on her face.
Huo Shaoheng said calmly next to him: "We are also a lot older. Although we are younger than you, we are still far away from the word 'young people'."
"Haha, really?" The man's eyes were a little cloudy, and he could no longer clearly see the faces of Gu Nianzhi and Huo Shaoheng.
But just because he couldn't see their appearance clearly, he was not confused by their disguise.
Just by listening to Gu Nianzhi's voice, the speed and intonation of her words, and the natural vigor in her words, the man concluded that the woman in front of him was only in her early twenties.
But since Huo Shaoheng said that they were much older, this person did not expose him.
He just looked at Gu Nianzhi and said to her, "Can you please push me back? I'll treat you to tea."
Gu Nianzhi nodded quickly, "Sorry for bothering you. We came with the volunteer group today. This is our first time here. What do you usually do with the volunteers? Do you want to play cards?"
She pushed the man's wheelchair toward the nursing home building.
This nursing home is still a very high-end nursing home in City C.
The building has an elevator, several professional nurses are stationed on each floor, and doctors come regularly to check on the health of these elderly people.
Each elderly person has his own small suite, less than thirty square meters, but has a bedroom, living room and bathroom, but no kitchen.
Daily meals are delivered on time.
Gu Nianzhi and Huo Shaoheng pushed the old man up to the floor where he lived and into his small suite.
The old man stood up from his wheelchair, leaning on a cane, and asked tremblingly: "What kind of tea do you like to drink? I have green tea, black tea, coffee and juice here."
Gu Nianzhi and Huo Shaoheng actually didn't know how to eat or drink here, but they still said politely: "Let me do it. What kind of tea do you want to drink?"
The old man nodded and smiled, "Thank you then. I want black tea."
Gu Nianzhi saw a row of cupboards against the wall in the corner of the living room, and a coffee machine and a hot water machine on the counter below.
Gu Nianzhi boiled water, made tea, and put it in front of the old man. He also found a bag of muffins from the cupboard, opened it, put it on a plate, and brought it over.
The old man was very happy and said: "It's also good to drink black tea with waffles. In the early years, we all ate butter cream, spread on bread, and Colombian black coffee."
City C has always been the earliest international city in the Chinese Empire, and it was also once the largest city.
The people here are well-informed, especially the older generation, many of whom have the experience of studying abroad in their early years.
The old man in front of me had such an experience.
Gu Nianzhi smiled and sat across from him, holding a cup of green tea and twirling it in his hand without drinking it. He asked, "What did you do before? You must have been abroad, right?"
"I came back from studying abroad." The old man started chatting, and gradually started chatting with Gu Nianzhi, "At that time, many people went abroad, and many came back. None of us wanted to stay abroad."
"Yeah, yeah, it's better to be at home." Gu Nianzhi nodded repeatedly, "What major did you study? Will you work here when you come back?"
"I studied mechanical manufacturing, and after I came back, I taught at the university here until I retired." The old man recalled the past with more smiles on his face, "Are you young people also interested in things so long ago? "
"Of course I'm interested!" There seemed to be light in Gu Nianzhi's eyes, and his expression was very contagious, "I'm interested in that era! Decades ago, there was a big policy change, and everything was different. Reform, opening up, It’s really a storm!”
"...Oh, reform and opening up..." The old man snorted, obviously not so enthusiastic anymore.
Gu Nianzhi noticed the change in the man's mood, and thought about it, "Yes, reform and opening up is a huge opportunity. Do you think how many rich people have been created? From a household of ten thousand yuan to less than a million now. The situation of being considered rich and only starting out with tens of millions of dollars is really a huge change..."
"Changing seas...? Haha..." The old man laughed again, "It is not a good thing to infinitely expand people's yearning for wealth."
"This is inevitable." Gu Nianzhi said perfunctorily, thinking about how to naturally bring the topic to the Qin Huichang family.
Huo Shaoheng picked up the coffee next to him, took a sip, and said calmly: "Yes, too much emphasis on the pursuit of wealth is indeed not conducive to social stability. Especially in the early days, people often had the opportunity to get rich. It is difficult now. .”
"Suddenly rich..." The old man didn't know what he thought of, and repeated in a murmur, regretting: "Yes, suddenly rich... but some people just don't have this life!"
Gu Nianzhi got excited and said hurriedly: "If he doesn't have this life, it means he has no chance to get rich. What is there to regret?"
"You can't say that." The old man started chatting and told Gu Nianzhi his heart. "I used to have a colleague. His family owned a piece of land in Z city in the south. You know, in those days, Z city was just a small town. In a fishing village, having a piece of land there is nothing.”
"But he suddenly sold the land. Less than half a year after the sale, the land was actually included in the special economic zone of City Z. It was suddenly worth a hundred times!"
Gu Nianzhi became excited, tried his best to suppress his emotions, and asked cautiously: "Your colleague has land in Z city? Why does he suddenly want to sell it? Is he regretting it so much that his intestines are blue now?"
The old man showed an even more regretful expression, shook his head and said, "He has no chance to regret it. Not long after returning from City Z, their family of three was involved in a car accident, and their family was destroyed."
"They didn't even see the day when this land was going to take off."
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This is the second update today: Chapter 1775 "A Dream in the South".
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