"What are these grasses for, piled up so much. On the third floor, Li Xinyuan looked curiously at the very large, neatly stacked haystack in front of her. She has lived in a staff apartment with her parents since she was a child, and her grandmother's house is only a trip to her grandmother's house for the New Year's holiday, and she is not very familiar with it, and now the older generation in the countryside is still patriarchal, so her grandmother does not care much about Li Xinyuan, which leads to Li Xinyuan not taking the initiative to go to her grandmother's house if she is fine, so she is not clear about some things in the countryside.

"These are the straw used for the fire, and after the rice is beaten, it is bundled up in small bundles, and then piled up a little bigger, and tied up in the whole piece, so that people can pull it up with a rope upstairs, and throw it directly from the balcony if they want to use it. This is the use of this for the earthen stove at home. Zhuo Ziyuan explained that in fact, the third floor is relatively empty, and there are two large rooms, one dedicated to storing straw, and the other is completely empty.

"Let's go, let's go down, there's nothing to see here. ”

"Wow, you have so many awards" Looking at the awards on the walls of Zhuo Ziyuan's room, Li Xinyuan said exaggeratedly.

"I've had good grades since I was a child, either a good student, an excellent student, and some sports awards, and my dad nailed these awards to the wall. ”

"I didn't expect you to be so powerful since you were a child. ”

"That is, my father told me since I was a child that he hoped that I could become the first college student in the village and win glory for the Zhuo family, so I have been working hard since I started school, and I didn't disappoint them. ”

"Well, where did you go to elementary school, and did you also go to Central Elementary School?"

"No, I went to the primary school in the brigade, and the children from more than a dozen villages around me went there, and then I went to the central primary school in the sixth grade. The elementary school is in the next village, just a 5-minute walk. ”

"It's so close, take me there that afternoon. Li Xinyuan just wanted to know more about Zhuo Ziyuan, she always remembered that time in the park, the lonely and sad back.

"Okay, I haven't been back to see it, I'll take you to see it in the afternoon. ”

"Your room is so clean, do you know that we are coming, and we have cleaned it in the morning. The topic changed quickly, and Li Xinyuan said with a mischievous wink.

"What's the matter, it's usually like this" Zhuo Zi** likes to tidy up his room neatly, and it looks comfortable.

"Bragging, I don't believe it, you must have sorted it out on purpose. ”

"Really, if you don't believe it, I can't help it. ”

"I don't see any toys you have, what do you usually do at home. ”

"I don't do anything, study, sleep, those toys are not interesting, I threw away all the toys I bought in elementary school, and I haven't bought toys since I was in junior high school. ”

"No wonder the results are so good. Learn like this every day, why haven't you become a nerd? In fact, in the eyes of other people in school, Zhuo Ziyuan is a typical nerd, who doesn't do anything else except read books and study. Li Xinyuan has been in contact with him for a long time, knowing that he skates, paints, writes, and is also cheerful, so I don't think he is a nerd.

"There is a golden house in the book, there is Yan Ruyu in the book, the book is so good, of course you have to read carefully, but forget about being a nerd, I don't want to be dumbfounded. ”

"Brother, what do you want to do in the future, writer?"

"No, I don't know what to do, I'll do whatever I can make money when the time comes, and I'm writing now because I only have this means of making money, Yuan'er, have you ever thought about what to do in the future?"

"My dream since I was a child was to be a painter and to record all the good things with a brush. But I didn't want to be a painter who could only hold a brush, so I studied music with my mother, and I also had to study hard to achieve more dreams. ”

"Well, I support you, the more dreams you have, the better, so that people can continue to work hard and struggle, and this life will be wonderful, and I will help you realize it when the time comes. Zhuo Ziyuan is also encouraging himself.

"Brother, who are these avatars you drawn? Li Xinyuan was looking at Zhuo Ziyuan's sketch in the corner of his desk.

"No one, just draw it" This is Zhuo Ziyuan's attempt to draw his daughter's head, but he failed to paint many of his works, and many of them could not be painted completely.

"No way, these 3 avatars of yours should be drawn of a person, and the outline is almost the same. ”

"There's really no one, just draw it. Let's go, let's go down to eat, it should be almost there. Zhuo Ziyuan snatched the sketch, stuffed it indiscriminately, and pulled Li Xinyuan downstairs.

This must be the same person who was painted, looking at the way he didn t want to say it, it must be someone he cared about very much, could it be the source of Brother Ziyuan's sadness, Li Xinyuan followed behind, pondering.

Downstairs, the dishes are almost ready, 3 cooked dishes, a large bowl of braised pork, a bowl of braised fish, a garlic fried shrimp, a large pot of chicken soup, and two vegetables, a standard eight dishes and one soup.

The two fathers made one head respectively, Zhuo Ziyuan and his mother sat on one side, Li Xinyuan and Li Xiaomei sat opposite, and the two families drank drinks, ate hot dishes, and praised their children.

"Xiaoyuan, I heard Mr. Li say that you have cooked for them, how can I remember, you seem to have never cooked for me at home. Eating and eating, Zhuo's mother joked.

Oops, forget about this stubble, Zhuo Ziyuan's parents didn't know that he could cook, in fact, not to mention Zhuo Ziyuan in junior high school, even when he was in college, he was not very good at cooking, at most he made fried rice and cooked egg soup.

"Mom, it's not easy, I'll do it myself tomorrow, no, I'll do it tonight. "Zhuo Ziyuan gags.

"Mom, why did I hear that the first time you cooked for others, it was for Yuan'er, why didn't you think about making it for me. ”

Dizzy, even I know this, just this hour, how many things did they talk about, Zhuo Ziyuan wanted to cry without tears, "Mom, isn't this a special situation, besides, there is a mother at home, which round of cooking for me, how can the food I cook is delicious for my mother." ”

"I think I have a daughter-in-law and forgot my mother, and my son is older, so I can't control it. ”

Li Xinyuan on the other side couldn't stand it anymore, and lowered her head with a red face, it turned out that I was the first person to eat Brother Ziyuan's cooking, and my heart was warm.

Even they are united in this matter, Zhuo Ziyuan is even more bitter in his heart, I really didn't think much about it, how good it would be to have an extra sister, what do you want to do, do you want to give you a way to live.

At a meal, the parents ate happily, but the two little ones ate in fear, eager to get under the table.

After eating, Zhuo Ziyuan took Li Xinyuan to the old elementary school, and he couldn't stay at home.

Walking all the way on the ridge, Zhuo Ziyuan told Li Xinyuan interesting stories when he was a child, although he couldn't remember everything, but there were still many more impressive. He told him about the farming and releasing water, catching fish in the canals and fields, and about turning out a nest of snakes in the mounds of the fields, cutting grass and feeding the pigs, touching the snails, catching yellow eels, and so on.

When I came to the school, I learned that it had been abandoned, and the children in the village now go to the central primary school.

The whole school is a blue brick house, just one floor, although the iron door is locked, but it has been damaged a large hole for people to enter and exit, after entering, the seesaw in the campus has rusted, the cement table tennis table has also cracked, the classroom windows are broken, the steel bars on the windows have also been rusted, the desks inside are still there, but they have been messed up.

spent his childhood in such a place, and Zhuo Ziyuan's memory has been blurred.