Li Laosan gave birth to four children in total, and one died prematurely.
According to my mother, that should be my second sister who died a hundred days ago. Human destiny is impermanent, and it is difficult to be born as human beings. We should cherish it all. We can grow up and become an adult. This is something that we are extremely grateful.
I don’t know what Li Laosan felt at that time. I have never asked him about this.
Li Laosan should have been transferred from the water conservancy station to the Water Conservancy Bureau around 1980. The Water Conservancy Bureau had a canteen, so Li Laosan became the chef of the canteen in the agency and later became the person in charge of the canteen. There are only two people in the cafeteria, and there is also a teacher uncle. He used to be the section chief, but later after retirement, he became a chef. The two of them worked very well with each other.
Now the old man from the Water Conservancy Bureau in his fifties, the young people who had just graduated at that time were eating in the cafeteria, and Li Laosan took good care of them. Mr. Li is very popular.
Of course, the three brothers of the Li family are all very popular.
Later, Li Laosan was suspended from his job and paid, opened the so-called Kunshui Hotel, and later went to the water conservancy and salt farm for a few years, and then returned to the agency. In the last two years of life, I was accompanied by illness, unable to speak, and with crutches, I watched the people coming and going in and out of the water conservancy compound until the last moment of my life.
The three brothers of the Li family have moved from the countryside to a city not far away from home, but they often return more of this land in Wangsanzhai.
My grandmother has lived on this land for generations, and my grandfather is the first generation of Li family living on this land. Li Laosan and his siblings are the second generation, while our generation lives here as the third generation when they were childhood and teenagers. However, from then on, the fourth generation of the Li family completely left the land.
Only leave the old house and the old Li and Li Lao San who are sleeping in the west of the village, my grandmother.
The prolongation of the tribe may be inevitable with chance, but the roots of the family are inevitable with chance. The fallen leaves return to their roots and have been buried in this land where generations live.
In this small village, life, living or dying are natural things.
Li Laosan is no exception. In his 62 years of life, he was ordinary and ordinary, from Wangsanzhai to the county town fifteen miles away, and then returned to Wangsanzhai.
Time goes away from now on, time stays there.
From then on, in the west of the village, Li Laosan accompanied his parents forever.
