On February 14, 1995, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Du Qiu left the house, first walked to the small river in the village, and then walked along the river bank to the southeast, he was wearing a bloated long down jacket, a plush dogskin hat, wearing thick and big cotton gloves, the shape was a little funny, but very down-to-earth, also very warm, when passing near the big willow tree, met a few idlers who were fishing in the riverside fish pond, one of them was Huang Dashan who ran to report the news on the day he came back, he was very familiar and asked loudly: "Qiuzi, what are you going to do?"

"Nothing to do, hang out for a while. ”

"I have nothing to fish, the fish are fat in winter, and it is easy to fish, a big bucket for a while, and I went to my house to drink fish soup at night after fishing. ”

"Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, how could Qiuzi go to your house for dinner, do you want him to help you cook?"

"Hehe, Qiuzi roast is indeed a good hand, much more delicious than my mother-in-law's cooking. When are you leaving tomorrow?"

"Leave at nine in the morning and catch the train at half past four in the afternoon. Du Qiu stood under the big willow tree and chatted with them for a while, then said, "You guys go fishing first, I'll go to the bluestone rock to have a look." ”

"There's nothing to do over there, just a stone and a well. ”

"Anyway, just wander around, just take a look. ”

Du Qiu stepped on knee-high snow, passed through the rice fields of several families, and then climbed a small dirt slope, he saw a hill, in the northwest corner of the mountain, there is an abrupt cliff, about seven or eight meters high, and the ground is at a right angle of 90 degrees, smooth as a mirror, as if someone used a knife to cut off a piece of the mountain, next to the cliff there is a well surrounded by a stone, the wellhead is only a little higher than the ground, there is no guardrail around, the outdoor temperature has been below minus 20 degrees on this day, but the well water is not frozen, clear and clean, like a mirror.

That's where my uncle fell......

May his spirit rest in heaven......

Du Qiu stood by the well, closed his eyes, folded his hands, and prayed in silence for a few minutes before turning around and leaving, walking towards his home from another road, this well he had come four times, the first time was when the bones were found in 2011 and compared with DNA, the second time was the day after returning to his hometown, the third time was Chinese New Year's Eve, and the fourth time was today, tomorrow he will leave his hometown and return to Cloud City, specially come to mourn.

The waterhole where the bones were found is at least seventy or eighty kilometers away, and it is necessary to climb over four peaks at an altitude of six or seven hundred meters, and there are no people along the way, not only are there no roads, but there are no mountain trails, and if it were not for the geological expedition team in 2011, no one would have been able to discover the secret of Du Qiushi's disappearance.

Of course, Du Qiu couldn't let his uncle's remains remain in the wilderness, but now that the snow was covering the mountain, there was no way to go over to search for it, so he planned to wait for the snow to melt in the spring, and then go alone to bring the bones back and bury them next to his grandmother's tomb, so that his uncle and mother could accompany him and put them in the ground.

When he returned to the door, Du Qiu saw Lin Dawei with a camera around his neck, standing in front of those old houses and smoking, so he walked over and asked, "Brother-in-law, what are you looking at?"

"When I built a new house in '92, I was going to push these old houses, but my father disagreed, saying that the ancestral house should not be moved. Lin Dawei took a long breath of smoke ring and said, "Actually, he is afraid that you won't be able to find a home when you come back." ”

Du Qiu silently, these old houses were built in the 50s, in the 90s it was already a dilapidated house, but at the insistence of his grandfather, no one dared to demolish it, let it stand in the wind and rain, after the death of his grandfather in 2008, his mother would come back every year to find someone to repair, and after his mother died in 2010, his father took him back to repair it, and it was not demolished until the second year after discovering the truth.

"I used to live in this room, and your sister lived in that room...... It used to be a barn, and I used to catch mice in it...... My dad lives there, and he watches me and your sister do their homework every night, and he doesn't go to bed until 10 o'clock. ”

Lin Dawei introduced several rooms like a few treasures, and then said with some emotion: "Just now your sister proposed to demolish the old house, and our father agreed, saying that when the spring thawed, I would find someone to demolish it, I was a little reluctant, so I came out to take a look and take a few photos to keep a souvenir." ”

Du Qiu continued to be silent, these old houses are a beacon of hope for his grandfather and mother, although the hope is very slim, but it can always bring some comfort, and for his father, these old houses are a warm home and a fetter to the soul.

Lin Dawei is not a person from Heping Village, he used to live in the town, in 1979 he was admitted to junior high school with the first place in the town, but in the autumn of that year, his parents encountered a mudslide when collecting medicine in the mountains, both were killed, after the death of his parents, his brother and sister-in-law not only did not want to provide him with school, even the most basic food and clothing had to be deducted, Lin Dawei had to drop out of school at home, relying on helping people herd cattle to make a living, there was no decent cotton jacket in the winter, and he could only go out with a broken quilt, after Du Qiushi disappeared in 1980, his grandfather heard about his experience, and he cherished his talent, so he recruited him to be a son-in-law to raise, and then he had everything now。

In the time and space before the crossing, after the news of Lin Dawei and Du Chunhua's divorce spread, almost everyone who knew him pointed at his spine and scolded, scolded ingratitude, pigs and dogs are not as light as possible, and a few neighbors even started directly, beating his head and bleeding, if Du Chunhua hadn't arrived in time to stop him, it is estimated that even his life would have been lost.

However, there are many kinds of feelings, family affection is affection, kindness is affection, love is love, mixing it up will only make all three taste, father and mother have clearly distinguished the feelings, each understands each other and sincerely wishes each other to find happiness, outsiders are not to worry about pointing fingers, now the only obstacle is the family affection between grandpa and father, grandpa does not nod, father would rather die than divorce, and mom will never dare to divorce.

"Brother-in-law, what should I call you after you said tonight?"

"Whatever, if you want to call your brother-in-law, you can continue to call it, and if you don't want to call it, just call it Viagra or Big Viagra. ”

Big Viagra and Viagra, what is the difference between these two names......

It doesn't matter now, it's a bit embarrassing after Viagra went public in 1998......

"My sister said that she has always treated you as a younger brother, or if you recognize our father at night, I will call you brother directly in the future. ”

Lin Dawei said that he wanted to quit smoking when he left Yuncheng, but after returning to his hometown, he smoked even more, and he smoked every day, obviously under great mental pressure, he smoked two between words just now, and then took out another one, and lit it directly with the butt of a cigarette, and said: "In fact, I have long regarded our father as my own father in my heart, of course it is good to recognize the father, I am afraid that our father will not figure it out, after all, the son-in-law is half a son, and the godson is always the son of an outsider." ”

"Do you want to change the surname to Du?"

"I would have said that my surname should have been Du, and after the divorce, he will definitely follow your sister, whether you change your surname or not, I won't be able to speak. Lin Dawei lowered his head, took a long puff of cigarette, wanted to cover the tears in the corners of his eyes with the smoke swirling, his voice was a little hoarse, and said: " Before Jinyan was born, my father heard someone tell jokes and ridicule me, saying that no matter how good I am at studying, I will make money, and I am just a useless son-in-law, after Jinyan was born, he personally went to Yuncheng, filled in my surname on the birth certificate, and then took the certificate home and pasted it on the wall of the hall, so that everyone could see that our father would rather lose his face and save my face, but I have never repaid his old man, not even one in ten thousand, alas......"

Lin Dawei said several times before this story crossed, each time he was sad and guilty, this unforgettable gratitude is very private, no one can comfort him, and there is no way to comfort him, Du Qiu had to sigh, and at the same time, his brain was running at high speed, thinking about how to help his father make up for this heart knot - in the time and space before the time and space, after his parents divorced, although his grandfather never said that his father was wrong, and he never forbade his father to visit and honor him for three days and two ends, but every time he had a black face and rarely talked to him.

Du Qiu knew that he was still short when he returned home, and he had not yet established the image of being able to take the lead and take charge alone, and his words had no weight, and when his father and mother found out the relationship at night, his grandfather would 100% drive him away, and he couldn't participate in this kind of meeting involving great changes in the family, so he could only help think of ideas on the side.

But my grandfather's temper is indeed as my mother said, hard and stern, not oil and salt, and all day long, with a straight face, joy and anger are invisible, there is no way to guess his thoughts, there is no way to prescribe the right medicine, Du Qiu has pondered a lot of whimsical ideas in the past few days, but the result is that his father or mother thinks it is a bad idea, which is completely unfeasible, which will make him think of a new idea, and said: "Brother-in-law, why don't you just change your surname to Du." ”

It's nothing for a child to change his surname, but it's not a trivial matter for an adult to change his surname, Lin Dawei was a little stunned, turned his head to look at him, and forgot to smoke.

"In the past, our father raised you as an adult, and now you change your surname to help our father support the elderly, and then change back after he leaves, so that the grievances and grievances are cleared, and they do not owe each other, which is also a good story. Du Qiu felt that this new idea seemed to be good, so he added: "You don't need to change the surname on the household registration, just change it verbally, just open a running water table like I did that day, and announce it to everyone, which is a meaning, so that our father and the neighbors have a step down, so as not to hurt the relationship because of the divorce." ”

Lin Dawei also seemed to think that this idea was good, not a bad idea, so he flicked his fingers, flicked the half-smoked cigarette into the snowdrift, and said, "I'll go back and discuss it with your sister to see if it works." ”

"What is my sister doing?"

"I'm making a gold, silver and iron lamp to be delivered at night. ”

Many places in China have retained the custom of sending lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, some places send flower lanterns, some places send paper lanterns, each has its own practice, and each has its own meaning, many places in the Northeast send the face lamp, made of cornmeal called gold lamp, made of wheat flour called silver lamp, made of buckwheat flour called iron lamp, steamed and poured into the lamp oil, loaded with the wick, sent to all parts of the house, the road at the door and the graves of ancestors and deceased relatives, pray for blessings and send the feelings of longing.

Du Chunhua was using a basin and noodles in the kitchen, and after listening to the idea, she said: "Dawei, I don't object to this, as long as you don't feel wronged, our father will accept it." ”

"I don't have any grievances, just say this to my dad at night. ”

At this time, someone outside the courtyard called Lin Dawei, he hurriedly explained two sentences and left, Du Qiu stayed in the kitchen to help, Du Chunhua kneaded the dough, and said with a smile: "Little brother, you are very attentive to this brother-in-law, you actually want to be a godbrother with him." ”

That's my father, if I don't want to find a way to tie my feelings, and become a passer-by in the future, wouldn't it be very bad......

first turned my father into a brother-in-law, and now I have turned my brother-in-law into a godbrother, fortunately, my nerves are strong enough, otherwise I would definitely be stimulated into a madman by this earth-shaking emotional upheaval......