“...... Dad, you're back......"

The middle-aged man held an empty plastic bag in his hand, walked down the mountain, walked along the village road, and then walked back to his yard.

In the hall, the girl, who was lying on the table, seemed to be doing her homework, and looked out of the house from time to time, saw her father coming back and quickly ran out.

“...... It's back. ”

The middle-aged man smiled on his face, looked at his daughter, answered the call, and walked into the house.

The girl followed, looking up at her father with some anticipation in her eyes,

“...... Dad, you went to the mountain with that Taoist grandfather and that big brother to see grandma and grandpa today, is it because there is smoke on grandma and grandpa's grave...... I saw it today, what do you mean?"

The girl's tone was curious, but her eyes couldn't help but show some nervousness, and she stopped beside her father and asked aloud.

The middle-aged man stretched out his hand, touched the girl's hair, smiled, and responded,

“...... Meaning, it's about to be a big man in our family, it's my baby daughter, very smart, and she will be very powerful in the future. ”

“...... Really?"

The girl's eyes couldn't help but show some surprise, and then she asked out loud,

“...... But Dad said before...... When I finish elementary school, I won't be allowed to continue my studies...... If I hadn't read, would I still be smart and powerful?"

As she spoke, the girl lowered her head slowly.

“...... It's Daddy's wrong, Dad shouldn't scare you with this......"

The middle-aged man stretched out his hand again, touched the girl's hair, smiled, and said,

"In the future, you can study hard, don't worry, Dad will let you study even if he smashes the pot and sells iron...... Dad will be waiting for my baby daughter to be great in the future, so I will honor my father and let my father enjoy it. ”

Laughing, the middle-aged man said,

“...... Hmmm!"

The girl nodded emphatically.

“...... Okay, go ahead and get back to your homework. Dad went to cook dinner for you, and this morning he went to buy some food, and now it seems that only our father and daughter have eaten. ”

“...... Good!"

The middle-aged man said, looked out of the house again, turned around and walked towards the kitchen,

The girl responded with joy, and staggered her feet, and ran back to the table in the hall.

“...... By the way, Tongtong, when I went out at noon today, did I go to play with Lu Cheng again?"

After walking a few steps, the middle-aged man paused again and asked out loud,

“...... That's right, I'm going to find Lu Cheng. ”

The girl who was happy immediately responded,

“...... This stinky boy ......"

The middle-aged man smiled, paused again, and then walked into the kitchen again, and said again,

“...... After a while, Dad will finish the dishes, and you can bring some to Lu Cheng and their family. ”

“...... Good!"

Crisply, the girl answered again and sat back on the stool beside the table.

......

“...... What if Yu Tong and her father still don't believe it......"

In the village, in a house, the boy from before closed the bedroom door, hiding behind the bedroom door, sitting on a small stool, flipping through a worn-out book in his hand, a little distressed,

“...... Therefore, Yu used ghosts and gods as the reason to make the ancestral tomb burn green smoke, which was seen by everyone, and everyone thought it was true...... Later, the people in the village contributed funds for the rest of the ......"

Flipping through the worn-out book again, the boy became more and more distressed,

“...... Isn't it a lie to ask the people of the village to pay for it?"

“...... Eh, by the way, let my dad pay for Yu Tong's education......"

There was more sparkle in his eyes, and the boy felt that he had thought of a way, and he was happy again,

“...... In the book, Yu can make the whole village pay, and Yu Tong will ask my father to pay, it will definitely be possible...... Hmmm!"

“...... Lu Cheng, Xiao Cheng, what are you talking about in the house alone?"

Outside the house, Lu Cheng's father walked by, vaguely heard the muttering in the house, and shouted.

“...... It's okay, it's okay......"

Frightened, the boy quickly tucked the book back under the bed.

......

“...... Tongtong, you eat first, I'll go see your mother......"

In the room, a table of dishes was set, and the girl was already seated, holding a bowl in one hand and chopsticks in the other, looking at the dishes on the table.

The middle-aged man took off his apron, held a bowl, sandwiched some of each dish, and said loudly to the girl.

"Good!"

The girl looked at her father, and she replied with a crisp answer.

The middle-aged man smiled, took the bowl, and walked towards the next room where the shrine was enshrined.

The girl watched her father walk into the room, and then turned her head, but instead of eating directly, she took chopsticks and looked at the dishes on the table, waiting for her father.

“...... Dad is so superstitious, every time he eats......"

......

“...... Xiaocui, there are a lot of dishes cooked in the house today, and several of them are what you liked to eat before, so I'll clip some for you, can you taste the taste......"

Walking into the house, the middle-aged man closed the door of the house and put the dishes on the offering table in front of the shrine.

In the photo, it is a woman in her thirties, and her appearance is the same as the figure beside the middle-aged man.

“...... Tongtong is now that she has grown up...... When you first gave birth to her, she was so ......."

The middle-aged man said, his eyes were a little dazed, and his fingers were rough, rubbing the clean photo,

“...... She's going to lie to me with someone else now...... You've been gone for years......"

“...... I miss you, I miss you so much......"

The middle-aged man had a smile on his face, his eyes were still in a trance, and some muddy tears poured out of his eyes and fell to the ground.

Next to him, the figure, looking at the middle-aged man, looked gentle, stretched out his hand, some distance from the middle-aged man's face, wiping the tears on the middle-aged man's face,

"I know ......"

......

“...... Okay, let's sleep......"

In the bedroom, he took care of the girl to lie down, and then straightened the quilt for the girl, and the middle-aged man sat down on a stool next to the bed.

“...... Daddy, tell me a story......"

“...... Okay, I'll tell you about ......."

The middle-aged man sat on the edge of the bed and whispered to his daughter,

The girl listened, gradually closed her eyes, and fell asleep.

The middle-aged man stopped, straightened the quilt covered by the girl again, stretched out the girl's hand on the quilt, and then carefully put it back under the quilt.

“...... Tongtong, you have to study hard in the future...... Otherwise, Dad will be deceived by you and lose a lot......"

The middle-aged man looked at the girl who was already asleep, said softly, and gradually laughed again,

Immediately after, thinking, there were gradually some doubts in his eyes,

The smoke before may have been made by Lu Cheng and her daughter, but later...... Where did it come from......

......

“...... Don't believe it, there is green smoke on this ancestral tomb, and our village has not been out of it, but it has been out for hundreds of years...... Later, there was a jinshi in the family's house......"

Along the side of the village road, an elderly man in the village was still talking to the villagers who were talking next to him.

Listening to the sound of the words lingering in his ears with the breeze, Lian Ge moved his steps and walked out of the village along the village road.

Stepping on the slope outside the village, the road that circles the hills, turning his head, and then looking at the village in the valley at the foot of the mountain,

Lian Ge smiled slightly, turned his head again, moved his feet, and walked forward along the road under his feet.

A man and a rat drifted away, and the village faded away behind them.

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