Gong’s mother had just arrived, and they couldn’t let her stay at the old house with the Old Lady, so the whole family ended up living together.
After living together for a month, the Old Lady had adapted to the new lifestyle, and during this month, she had fully understood the situation of the Cao family.
That month, Xiao Xiao and Grandma shared a room, and she herself slept in another room, mainly because she was afraid she wouldn’t adapt to sleeping with others, so they didn’t let the two old ladies share a room.
Then there were so habits of Gong’s mother that Gong Mingxia wanted to subtly help her change during this month.
For instance, she was used to spitting at ho and continued to spit on the floor tiles here, then rubbed it with her foot; this habit, let alone the Cao family, even Gong Mingxia found unbearable. She didn’t speak, but picked up a tissue, squatted down, and personally wiped it clean.
Gong’s mother’s face turned red at that, but more embarrassing things for her accumulated, such as not closing the door when using the toilet, not flushing the toilet, and even trying to save up flushes, which made Gong Mingxia feel helpless.
What she couldn’t stand the most was that Gong’s mother didn’t like to bathe, preferring to wipe herself down with a towel—what kind of habit was that? Gong Mingxia had told her many tis to take showers, and although she did so, she was very uncomfortable with it.
At ho, they would cook only one dish for a al, but now they had three or four dishes, plus soup, and had to use serving chopsticks and couldn’t make noises while eating...
She truly taught her like a child because she saw that Xiao Xiao and Cao Hai behaved much better than this old lady.
A month later, the Old Lady wanted to go ho. Gong Mingxia hadn’t expected that she couldn’t bear this lifestyle after just a month.
She even felt sowhat resentful, thinking that these tasks weren’t difficult, and it was just a matter of forming habits. Why couldn’t she change her bad habits?
Cao Yuan then advised her, "Mom has been free all her life, living in the rural area where people don’t have so many rules. Coming here, she has to be careful with everything she does every day. How can she tolerate it? You’ve disrupted her usual pace of life; she definitely isn’t used to it. She could bear it for a day or two or a month, but what about after that month? Facing such a lifestyle every day, she probably just thinks about it and feels like the sky is falling. She wants to go back to her own life, and honestly, you can understand that."
"What should we do then? I finally brought her over, and now I should send her back?"
"We don’t need to send her back, but we could buy her a house in the suburbs, let her plant vegetables, raise chickens, and enjoy a bit of a rural life. That way, you can take care of her closely, and she can live the life she wants. What do you think?"
Upon hearing this, Gong Mingxia’s eyes lit up instantly, "Right, how co I didn’t think about that? Let’s go look at houses tomorrow, but, it’s hard to buy houses in rural areas, isn’t it?"
"What’s hard about it? There are plenty of uninhabited houses in the suburban rural areas. I’ll ask around with my colleagues, so of them have old houses there. If I get a good lead, we can go later."
Three days later, coinciding with the weekend, Cao Yuan took the family for a drive to the rural area of the suburbs, and along the way they visited a village, found the village chief, and visited a household. This family were neighbors of Cao Yuan’s colleague, who had long settled in H state, and their long-unused house had been on sale for a while without finding a suitable buyer. The house, 15 ters wide and 18 ters long, had a large front yard and a backyard suitable for planting, with three rooms in the main hall and two wing rooms on each side. The house was well preserved, furnished completely, and it was available for a lump sum of one hundred thousand yuan, ready to move in.
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