It took nearly an hour for the three of them to squeeze out of the station, and they followed the crowd to the gate of Yuexiu Park, where their father and cousin had agreed to meet.

His father had told him about his and his cousin's past.

My cousin's full name is Jiang Xuecai, and his father is only one month older than him, and the two have played together, read together, and done homework together since they were children, and they are still in the same elementary school and the same class.

Both of them have liked to read and study since they were children, they are very hard-working, their academic performance has always been among the best in school, and they are ranked in the top ten of the whole grade in every exam.

But the world is impermanent, not long after the first year of junior high school, my grandfather suddenly became seriously ill, and the family spent all their savings in order to treat him, and borrowed a lot of money from relatives, but seven months later, my grandfather still left.

That day was the third day after his father's 13th birthday, and as the eldest son, he became an "adult" in just seven months.

He resolutely gave up his studies and used his immature shoulders to carry the financial burden of his family.

He worked as an apprentice with a carpenter in his hometown, working to earn money to support his family and provide for his younger siblings to go to school.

My cousin continued to go to school, junior high school and high school, and his studies and life have been going well.

During the college entrance examination, he was successfully admitted to Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, and stayed in Guangzhou to work after graduating from university, his wife was met after work, surnamed Chen, a native of Guangzhou, it is said that the family is very good, the two have a son, the age is the same as Xu Xincheng.

Ten years ago, my cousin took his parents and sister to Guangzhou, and since then, he has never returned to his hometown.

My father and cousin hadn't seen each other for ten years.

Uncle Cousin is now an executive of a well-known electrical appliance company in China, the company's headquarters is in Zhuhai, and the headquarters transferred him there to take charge of a department, and after the New Year, the family will move to Zhuhai.

His parents had always wanted Xu Xincheng to come to Guangzhou to have a look, and the reason why they decided to come at this time was because they felt that he was old enough, and at the same time, they wanted to seize the last chance before their cousin's family moved to Zhuhai.

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On the road, there are cars coming to pick up people, and like the flow of people on the side of the road, the traffic flow is also congested.

The trio waited in the biting cold wind for about 30 minutes.

A shiny black sedan pulled up at the entrance of the park, the door opened, and a well-dressed and elegant man stepped out of the car.

His father happily introduced him to his cousin, and then he and his cousin greeted each other warmly and greeted each other warmly.

Xu Xincheng, who was standing aside, looked at his cousin.

He was dressed in a black suit, a long black coat, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, his hair was neatly combed, jet black and shiny, and his face was full of red light, looking dignified, high-spirited, and young and fashionable.

He couldn't help but look at his father again, he wore a pair of old-fashioned black-rimmed glasses, his hair was disheveled, he was not yet forty years old, he already had a lot of gray hair on his temples, the corners of his eyes were wrinkled when he laughed, the skin on his face was dark and rough, his clothes were simple, and his tall but thin waist was a little rickety.

My father was also a talented man when he was young, but standing with his cousin of the same age at the moment, he looked more like his uncle than his cousin.

At this time, from the other side of the car, a young lady who was also dressed brightly, she was wearing a big red windbreaker, a long white scarf, long hair shawl, fair and round skin, elegant temperament, beautiful and fashionable, young and beautiful.

The cousin introduced her to the three of them, and it turned out that the young lady was actually his cousin.

When her mother was young, she was a famous beauty in her hometown, but her long-term hard work greatly reduced her beauty back then, and the lack of maintenance made her face prematurely appear traces of time, and her mother, who had short shoulder-length hair, was still dignified and generous, and her appearance was beautiful, but standing with her cousin, her mother, who was dressed plainly, still looked overshadowed.

From childhood to adulthood, in Xu Xincheng's mind, the kind and simple, diligent and kind, positive and optimistic parents have always been caring parents for him, and their image has always been tall and beautiful, but at this moment, the scene in front of him made him feel that his father's original tall image has become as rickety as his waist, and his mother's original beautiful image has also dimmed a lot.

He suddenly felt a piercing chill, which penetrated the thick cotton clothes on his body and directly into his heart, spreading all over his body in an instant, and he shivered several times.

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My uncle invited the three of them to get into the car, my father sat in the passenger seat and chatted with my cousin, my mother and aunt sat in the back seat with him, and my mother asked him to sit by the window so that he could have a good view of the city.

For the first time, Xu Xincheng saw with his own eyes the wide and neat road, the beautiful and neat green belt on the side of the road, the tall trees that are still lush and lush in winter, and the skyscrapers towering into the sky in the distance.

It's a lot bigger and more beautiful than his hometown, and he's seen the high-rise, modern and fashionable city scene countless times on TV, but the first time he was in it, he was still very immature and deeply shocked.

Suddenly, he felt a trance, in a trance, like the Guangzhou Railway Station Square, his hometown has also become a transparent glass case, it is a glass case containing 100,000 ants, and he is only one of the ants, the smallest ant.

After a long journey, after enduring 25 hours of pain and suffering, he finally squeezed out of that small exit, and he finally came to a vast world, to this new world.

However, everything here was so strange that he felt overwhelmed and panicked.

In a trance, one high-rise building after another turned into one suffocating mountain after another, which was difficult for him, a little ant, to climb.

He suddenly felt a piercing chill again, which penetrated the cotton hat on his head and rushed directly into his head, and in an instant it spread all over his body, and he shivered several times suddenly.

Immediately, he felt his whole body weak, the tall buildings outside the window became blurred in his eyes, the originally bright world became dark and cold, and he felt the world spinning, dizzy and nauseous.

In a trance, he felt a cold hand caressing his forehead, and then he realized that his forehead was already hot, but his body was shivering with cold, and then, his mother's anxious voice seemed to float from afar, "No! Xin'er has a high fever, and it burns badly!"

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Xu Xincheng only has a very vague memory of what happened next.

He only vaguely remembered that his father was walking briskly forward with him on his back.

Before he was eight years old, his father often carried him on his back to the vegetable market, to play in the fields, and to swim in the river.

At this moment, he clearly felt that his father's shoulders were much thinner than before, and his steps were not as brisk as before, and for the first time, he heard his father's rapid and restless panting.

His father carried him on his back and walked briskly into a white place, into a white room.

The walls were white, the bed was white, the ceiling was white, the lights were white, even the clothes he saw were white, and the whole world was white......

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In a trance, Xu Xincheng heard his mother's voice again, and there was no anxiety in that voice, "Xin'er, it's okay! Rest well! Sleep well!"

In a trance, the white world suddenly darkened, darkened, as if someone had extinguished all the white light, and the whole world became pitch black, and the surroundings became very quiet, very quiet, very quiet......

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Xu Xincheng felt a burst of warmth spread throughout his body, he slowly opened his eyes, the whole world brightened up again, he saw himself in a white room, white ceiling, white walls, he was lying on a white bed.

There was a window open on the left wall, and a ray of sunlight shone through that window, right on the white sheets on his body, and the sun was warm.

He saw his mother and father, the mother lying on the edge of the bed with her face sideways, asleep, and the father lying on his side, sleeping on a gray canvas folding bed, looking at their haggard faces, looking at the fine lines that had climbed up their faces too soon, at the white hair that had climbed up their temples too early, and a great sense of sadness and grief welled up in his heart, and tears could not help but welled up in his eyes and flowed out in an uproar.

He didn't dare to cry out loud, for fear of waking up his parents, so he quickly wiped away his tears and immediately ordered himself to stop crying and prevent tears from flowing out.

After only a short while, a great feeling of exhaustion and headache returned, and he fell asleep again.