My father-in-law is a retired old teacher.
Before his death, he told us more than once, after you retire, if you have the conditions, don't go back to your rural hometown to retire, those people will really sour and disgust you.
He said that if you don't have a strong heart, sooner or later you will be drowned by those acid waters.
What kind of words, someone will say, and it is a huddle together, squeeze you, hit you, and from time to time give you so many blows, disgust you, make you unpreventable.
You wear better clothes, he says you have money and a pension, it's different, it's different from our uncle farmer, it's different.
You dress a little torn, and he will say, look at you, you receive such a high pension every month, and you have to wear such shabby clothes, who fool? Afraid that we will ask you if you can borrow money?
If you rush to buy vegetables every day, they will say, you see, people who have pensions, it is different, every day rush to the gathering, big fish and meat, which is like us poor ghosts, every day clear water white porridge, alas, people are more angry than people.
If they see that you don't gather or buy vegetables for ten days and a half month, they will say, you see, people receive such a high pension every month, they don't have anything to eat, nothing to wear, just like us poor devils, the more money we have, the bigger we eat and drink, and if it goes on like this, the stone mountain will be eaten up.
Before, seeing my father-in-law say this, I thought he was just exaggerating.
Later, retired, I did not listen to the old man, went back to my hometown to live for a while, and finally realized that my father-in-law's words were true.
Now, I have finally made my home in the city.
I decided that if it was not necessary, instead of going back to my hometown in the countryside to retire, I would retire in the city, close the door, and live my own life, without having to be upset by those people in my hometown, causing unnecessary mental internal friction.