Chapter 156: Returning Home
The sky was gray and it seemed to rain.
The four of us stood in front of the police station and looked at each other.
"Yin Yin, Ah Kai, Ah Bing, there is something I want to ask you. ”
The three of them looked at me in unison, waiting for me to say the next word.
"In the past few days, I have to go out of the province, the company, please leave it to you, if there is any uncertain decision, feel free to call me. ”
"A Bing, you came last, but you learn quickly, if you still have any questions about customers, you can ask Fang Bijin, or you can call me to ask. ”
"Akai, I've been staring at the company a lot lately, beware of Zhao Heli taking advantage of my absence to play any tricks. ”
"Yin Yin, you are in charge of the finance department, don't be too tired, you participate in some important decisions, let your subordinates do it if it is not important, everything is important to the body and children. ”
After explaining everything, Lu Yinyin asked as a representative: "Brother Shan, are you going to find Wencai? Do you know where he is?"
I nodded, in fact, there is no need to hide it from them, they are all trustworthy people.
Lu Yinyin wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say it, maybe it was to persuade me, but my brother is my only relative, and it is understandable that I went to find him.
Both Bing and Akai solemnly promised me that they would take good care of the company and not let others take advantage of it!
"Akai, the car will be driven for you, and you will pick up Yin Yin to and from work every day in the future. ”
The car keys are at Akai's, and he will pick up Yinyin, and I am more relieved.
"Okay, you go back to work first, I'll go home and pack up by myself, and I'm ready to take the high-speed train. ”
"If the Wang team comes to me in two days and I haven't come back, you will say that I went to Shenzhen on a business trip. ”
In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, I also specially unified the caliber for them, and they were suddenly questioned in the past.
When I got home, I simply packed some of the things I needed and went out light.
In the taxi, I took out my mobile phone again, opened the railway APP, and booked a high-speed rail ticket to Sichuan Province recently.
According to his brother's habitual operation, every time he commits an accident, is wronged, or "flees", he will first choose his grandmother's house in Shanliang Village, An Town, Chong County, Da City, Sichuan Province.
Shanliang Village is a secluded mountain village located in the middle of nowhere, hiding there, it is basically difficult to be caught.
My grandmother's family has always been very poor, and she became a lonely old man in a mountain village ten years ago.
At the beginning, despite the opposition of her grandmother's family, her mother insisted on marrying her father, who was also poor but thousands of miles away.
Therefore, on the day of her marriage, she broke off her relationship with her mother's family.
But since my grandmother became a lonely old man, my father only took my brother and me to my grandmother's house a few times.
Maybe it's because people are getting old, and many things are seen.
My grandmother didn't reject us, and she liked me and my brother very much.
I heard my father say that my grandmother gave birth to nine children that year, and my mother was the youngest and most favored one, but in that famine era, although there were many children, few survived in the end.
So, of the nine children born to my grandmother, only three survived in the end.
Mother, her third brother and seventh sister, that is, my third uncle and seventh aunt.
But more than 30 years ago, the third uncle went out to work, and since then there has been no news, neither sent a penny back to the family, nor contacted the family again.
The whole person disappeared without a trace as if the world had evaporated.
In that era, people often disappeared, and human trafficking was also common, so perhaps the third uncle had already been reincarnated.
As for the seventh aunt, she married Lao Wang from the next village in her early years, but because she couldn't give birth to a child, she didn't know why, she died in her in-law's house.
Later, within half a month, the family remarried their daughter-in-law, and after seven or eight months, they gave birth to a child.
My grandmother's family was poor and had no power, so she could only swallow her anger and consider herself unlucky.
That year, because the seventh aunt died in vain, but the grandmother's family was powerless, the grandfather was so angry that he collapsed in bed.
Within a few years, my grandfather's illness worsened, coupled with the lack of money for medical treatment, and finally died.
It was also that year that my mother had a difficult birth, and my brother also went with my grandfather.
Before the father and daughter died, they were not able to see each other for the last time.
Sitting on the high-speed train, I recalled these past events, like opening a long-dusted scroll.
The scenes and scenes in it are the most sparse and ordinary sad past in the poor family.
Grandma, how is she doing now?
I haven't seen her in almost a decade.
Only before his death, my father would take my brother to visit occasionally and bring some living materials to temporarily improve my grandmother's poor life.
It was noon when I set off from Qianli City, and when I arrived in Chongxian County, it was already half past four in the afternoon.
I bought a lot of stuff at a big supermarket, filled my empty backpack, took out some cash, and then transferred to the car to get to Anzhen.
After arriving in Anzhen, I walked for another hour on the mountain road before finally coming to Shanliang Village.
By this time, it was already dark.
The households in Shanliang Village are relatively sparse, and the roads are all narrow mountain paths.
I took out my mobile phone to light it up, and walked for more than ten minutes before finally arriving at the earthen tile house in my memory.
The cement dam in front of the house is still the same one that has been around for more than ten years, and it has long been so old that it has cracked more than a dozen large cracks.
It is covered with moss, and if it is raining, it is easy to slip and fall.
The two adobe tile houses are still the same as they remember in their memories, but they are even more dilapidated, as if no one has repaired them for a long time.
There are already cracks in the walls, and the whole house looks like an old man in his last years, as long as he experiences a little more wind and rain, it will immediately collapse and cease to exist.
In the kitchen on the side, there is a dim candlelight.
This is my grandmother's old/habitual use, she is afraid of electricity, after all, electricity has to be paid, even if it has been reduced to only a dozen yuan per month, she still feels that it is too much.
A smell of food wafted out of it, and I followed the smell and walked into the kitchen.
The candles were placed on the high candlesticks, and in the candlelight, in front of the stove, the elder brother was burning wood, and the grandmother was stir-frying tonight's delicacies with a spatula.
"Brother?!"
My brother stood up in disbelief and called me, and my grandmother squinted at me.
We haven't seen each other for ten years, can my grandmother still recognize me?
"Is it Wenshan? Wenshan, my grandmother hasn't seen you for a long time, you said that you two brothers, now you have grown into adults, this time you are here, just stay a few more days, maybe, you will never see my old wife again. ”
My grandmother greeted me warmly with a trembling body, she was like an old tree swaying in the wind and rain, ready to fall at any moment.
If I'm not mistaken, my grandmother would have been 90 years old this year.
My grandmother looked behind me again: "Wenshan, are you here alone?
I put aside my backpack and the large bag I was carrying, and walked up quickly to hold my grandmother's hand.
said excitedly: "Grandma, it's me, I'm Wenshan, my grandson is not filial, I haven't come to see you for so many years." ”
My heart was sour, a feeling of discomfort welled up in my heart, my eyes moistened, and tears flowed fiercely.
I took the spatula from my grandmother's hand, wiped my tears, and grinned: "Grandma, you are in command next to me, and I will stir-fry the vegetables, just like when I was a child." ”
I stood in front of the stove, stir-fried vegetables with a spatula in my hand, and my brother sat down with a smile on his face to continue the fire.
My grandmother stood behind me and carefully instructed me on when to put what ingredients, just like when I was a child, she would stand behind me every time I came over.
After stir-frying the vegetables, I took out the pork, chicken, duck, fish, beef, and other vegetables I bought in town.
By the time all the dishes are ready, the table will be full.
Sitting around the old square table, my grandmother was still thinking that I was too expensive, and it was a pity that I couldn't finish eating so many vegetables.
In the hall, under the electric light, which was only a little brighter than the candlelight in the kitchen, the three of us were finally reunited.
During the meal, my grandmother always put the best meat dishes into my and my brother's bowls, and she picked some side dishes and greens to eat.
Suddenly, my grandmother asked me again: "Wenshan, you and Wencai are here, why didn't your father come?"
At this time, my brother looked at me frantically.