Granddaughter Xiao Liu discovers her grandmother's "secret". The 81-year-old lives alone at home, reads romance novels called "The Overbearing President Falls in Love with Me", and writes handwritten reading notes, and has accumulated two dictionary-thick notes so far.
After reading "Substitute Bride", Grandma Kong carefully noted down the plot of the story: the heroine's mother originally thought that the male protagonist was a scumbag, and asked him to marry her sister, "later found out that he was a handsome man with a lot of gold", and tried her best to change it back. She lamented in her notes: "The good guys are ridiculously good, and the bad guys are ridiculously bad, strikingly similar to the previous novel." ”
Grandma Kong loved to read since she was a child, and at that time, her family was poor and could not afford books, so she could only borrow from classmates. She was attracted by the plot of "Lin Hai Xueyuan", watched it all night, and was reluctant to sleep. Love to write reading notes, is also a habit developed since childhood, so as not to read and forget, open it and look at it and remember, "Oh, the mood at that time was like this." ”
When reading romance novels, Grandma Kong does not like exaggerated plots. "The gift of a girlfriend, a manor worth 5 billion yuan, I think it is too false." She likes to be in a reserved relationship, like her and her wife, she will not kiss and hug casually, and will not easily say divorce.
After her wife died, Grandma Kong broke her leg. At home, she was accompanied by novels and music, filling the gap left by her husband's death and bringing her joy in life.
[1] In romance novels, it is too unreal to give his girlfriend a 5 billion manor as a gift
Waking up at 5:30 a.m. and eating breakfast, 81-year-old Grandma Kong sat at the dining table and picked up her mobile phone to read a novel. She has a wide range of interests, romance novels, mystery novels, celebrity stories, all of which she loves.
After reading each book, Grandma Kong would carefully write her reading notes by hand. Her handwriting is very beautiful, one stroke at a time, no horizontal grid, and can be written in a neat row. In the past five years, she has written 10 books on a blank piece of paper the size of eight opens, "I don't count everything written in the small book, there are a lot." ”
Granddaughter Xiao Liu found her grandmother's notes and wrote a total of two dictionaries as thick, "I feel that the notes made before the exam are not as serious as those written by grandma." She found that her grandmother often read novels of the genre "The overbearing president falls in love with me", and would analyze the characters' personalities, storylines, and her own feelings in her notes.
Grandma Kong feels that many plots in romance novels are untrue. "The gift of a girlfriend, a manor worth 5 billion yuan, I think it is too false." Grandma Kong said. "Some books I don't think are very well written, and the logic is not very factual, so I won't read them, and I know what happens later."
She pays attention to the direction of the plot and wants to know if the male and female protagonists end up together. She likes the happy ending, and when she sees the misunderstanding between the protagonists and drifts apart, she will feel that "they don't cherish it too much". "People in the past never mentioned divorce, and now people treat divorce as a child's play."
She also felt that the protagonist in the novel was too open and straightforward, "We were all quite reserved at that time, and we didn't kiss and hug easily. "Grandma Kong's wife is a loyal and honest person who does not talk much, and is not very good at creating romance and surprises, but will borrow ancient poems in letters to express love and longing.
At the age of 23, Grandma Kong married this man four years older than her, and "never had a fight in her life." Grandma Kong said that her wife was very tolerant of her. One year during the Spring Festival, she accidentally broke 3 plates, and her husband did not blame, but comforted her "Great, rare years of peace". She accidentally broke the warm bottle, and her husband said, "I have long seen it unpleasant." ”
The two have been together for most of their lives, and when they were in their seventies, their wife died of liver cancer. "Ten years of life and death, do not think, unforgettable." Grandma Kong's voice was low, "In the first few years, I felt very uncomfortable in my heart, I didn't have any thoughts, and after two or three years, I slowly forgot." ”
[2] When I was a child, I couldn't afford to buy books, so I borrowed books and read them all night
"When my wife is gone, I am left alone, and sometimes my daughter and son come back to see, but they all have jobs and cannot be by my side." A few years ago, Grandma Kong broke her leg while riding a bicycle and was bedridden for a long time, causing ischemic osteonecrosis of the femoral head. Now, she can take care of her own household chores and cook, but she can't go far.
In the past, she would call neighbors to come to the house to chat. In recent years, neighbors have not often visited the house, and she can only read books and sing at home. In 2020, a friend in her seventies taught her to read novels on her phone. She asked her grandson, who was in junior high school, to help with a lot of books and choose what she was interested in.
Now she has learned to download it herself, watching all kinds of genres. When I get tired of watching, I listen to music and sing, "all kinds of hobbies change." ”
Grandma Kong said that she has loved reading since she was a child. But his family is so poor that "he can't afford to pay 2 yuan a year in tuition." "There are 6 sisters, she is the eldest, she has the responsibility of taking care of her younger sister, and she does not go to school until she is 10 years old.
She couldn't afford books and had to borrow them from classmates. Because she cherishes books, returns them on time, and "never waits for others to find me", everyone is willing to lend her books. She loves to watch "Lin Hai Xueyuan" the most, and she was fascinated by the night of school, and she didn't sleep all night.
After attending secondary normal school, Grandma Kong began teaching in primary schools. At that time, there was a shortage of teachers, Chinese, mathematics, music, she taught everything. After moving to town, she taught mathematics full-time until her retirement.
At the age of 12, Grandma Kong met her husband. He had difficulties in school, and it was Grandma Kong's father who helped him. "We can say that we are childhood sweethearts, and we go to the river to catch fish and touch shrimp."
Later, the brother went to Jinan to study. Once, he sent a letter to Grandma Kong's house, but his father went out for treatment, and Grandma Kong had to reply to the letter herself, and the two began to correspond from then on.
At the age of 20, his brother joined the army. One day, he wrote that his family had told him to mediate, and he disagreed, thinking about his childhood sweetheart's sister. Grandma Kong, who was still a girl, received this letter and was so panicked that no one dared to say or reply to it.
A month later, my brother sent another letter, this time to apologize, "If it can be done, it will be great, it can't be done, we are still brothers and sisters." Grandma Kong then asked her mother, who said, "He is of good quality, loyal and honest, as long as he does not dislike you, you should not dislike others." ”
"Actually, I like him a lot, he has a good personality, he is good in all aspects. I'm shy and don't know how to reply. The two fell in love for three years, and when Grandma Kong was 23, they got married.
Grandma Kong praised her husband's knowledge, "asking him if he knew everything." Before retiring, my husband taught himself Jinghu, "I learned all my music theory from him." "When her husband was at home pulling jinghu, Grandma Kong sat on the side and read.
Now that she lives alone, these hobbies fill Grandma Kong's time and make her feel less lonely. Children sometimes worry that she will look at her phone for a long time and hurt her eyes, "I get tired of watching, so I change it to listening." ”
Grandma Kong said that since she was a child, she liked to write reading notes, record her feelings, and when she saw what was well written, she would copy them down and read them often. "Some books I read and forget, I remember when I look at the notes, and sometimes I laugh when I read them."
"When I was happy, I felt that I had not lived enough, and I wanted to borrow another five hundred years from heaven. When you are unhappy, you feel that it is not interesting to repeat yesterday today and repeat today tomorrow. The 81-year-old Grandma Kong had a loud voice and hearty laughter, "So it's quite interesting to write these things, I opened it and looked at it, and the mood at that time was like this." ”
Jiupai News Reporter Wang Jiaqi Li Yiwen
Edited by Ren Zhuo
[Source: Jiupai News]
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