The moon and stars are scarce, Shangyun City, an old village.

The houses here look like they have not been inhabited for years, most of them are small tiled houses with yards, and the bricks of the tiled houses are mostly very old, and the green bricks are covered with moss.

From time to time, a few children will run around the streets, and most of them are elderly, and the proportion of young people is very small.

At the end of the block, there is a small courtyard, and there is a large courtyard in the middle, and there are houses all around, but it is quite dilapidated, and it looks like no one has lived in it for a long time.

In the courtyard, there was an old man with gray hair and an old green shirt, who was sweeping the ground with a broom and his back bent.

His movements were very, very slow, and he kept sweeping, but the dust on the ground could not be completely swept away no matter what.

"Dad, go home for dinner, don't sweep it. Outside the courtyard, a man in his sixties walked up and shouted.

The old man's sweeping movement paused slightly, then he turned around, glanced at the man, and said, "You guys eat first, and I'll sweep this place well." ”

"Dad, don't sweep, you can't sweep it clean, there will be a lot of leaves and a lot of dust every night when the wind blows, and no one lives in this place, so there is really no need to clean it." The man couldn't help but say.

"Eat first, let me stay here a little longer, go!" the old man said without hesitation.

When the man heard this, he only sighed slightly in the end, and left the courtyard: "Then I'll keep the food for you!"

"What's the matter, is Dad still the same as before?" a woman walked up to the courtyard and asked.

"Yes, Dad has been following the devil recently, and he always likes to clean in the courtyard, and asks him why he cleans, and what else does he say...... When the old man comes back!, I wonder if I'm going to find a doctor for my father, alas!" The man shook his head and looked at his father, his face full of worry.

……

Back in this courtyard, the old man was still sweeping the floor, sweeping and sweeping, he swept to the courtyard, under a big tree, and his movements couldn't help but stop.

He looked at the tree, stretched out his hand, and stroked it gently.

Finally, he sighed slightly: "I can't sweep it, I can't sweep it clean!"

After saying that, his old eyes were already a little cloudy.

Sitting on the chair under the tree, he stroked the chair, and when he looked closely, there were several small handprints on the chair made of cement, which looked like the handprints of a five- or six-year-old child.

Looking at these small handprints, he couldn't help but smile on his face, and he said, "I heard that there are really souls in this world, if you haven't been reincarnated, I still want to see you again!"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

Leaning back in the chair, the old man's thoughts slowly returned to the past.

This courtyard is where he was born, where he spent twenty years, and this place holds many of his memories.

The small handprints on the chair, which were printed by several of their friends when they were young, were scolded by the adults in the family at that time, and they were scolded and cried!

"I still remember that night, my father made me kneel for an hour, and my hands were swollen, and you were also punished by the family, and we left home in a fit of rage, and that was the first time we learned to run away from home, or was it I brought it ......up back then," the old man said, and his face showed a little nostalgia.

"After we went out, the family was in a hurry, and I still remember that after my mother found me, she cried and slapped me twice, and my father was also very angry, but in the end he didn't say anything. ”

After speaking, there was a smile on the old man's face.

He slowly stood up, touched the big tree, and said: "This tree has grown so big in a blink of an eye, I still remember that it was still very small, we got it from the next village together, Brother Tiezhu is the most powerful, and carried the tree all the way, and Sanwa, got a shovel from home to carry water, and the dog leftover, Niu Sheng, we planted the tree together, and in a blink of an eye, it has been more than eighty years!"

"And these, those ......"

The old man sat alone in the courtyard, looking at these little details, like a few treasures, and told the past little by little, as if all this happened yesterday.

He laughed when he talked about the funny places, and cried when he talked about the uncomfortable places.

"Now I'm alone, because of that war, you all left before me, and you left this courtyard, these things, do you have time, come back and see?" The old man's words were full of melancholy.

"These days, I've heard a lot of things, I heard Xiao Liao say, his mother Cuiyun also came back to see him, and Xiao Worm, his father, you remember, his father is a dog leper, who bullied us at the beginning, and then we taught us a lesson, he also came back to see Xiao Worm, now Xiao Worm is over sixty years old, and he is no longer the snot baby who chased us all over the street, they are all back, you guys, when will you come back to see?"

The whole courtyard seemed very quiet, and there was an old man sitting on it, talking to himself, not knowing who he was talking to, his eyes were very red, and there were turbid tears, which was very melancholy.

Ever since he'd heard about the rumors outside, he'd come to the place where he had grown up, wanting to wait for his former playmates to return.

"People, the older I get, the more I like to reminisce about the past, and I think I'm afraid I'm not far from that end! If you don't come, I'll go to you soon!"

As he spoke, he slowly stood up, and his whole person looked more and more depressed.

Step by step, he slowly walked towards the outside of the courtyard.

Just as he walked to the door, a voice suddenly came: "Little loach, you haven't taken the broom yet!

Hearing this voice, the old man's footsteps stagnated slightly, and his body trembled.

Little loach, this ...... It's his cheap name, but as he gets older and his seniority increases, people now have forgotten that he has this name, and his friends like to call him that the most.

He turned around, the broom fell in front of him, and a somewhat playful voice came: "Hehe, Brother Tiezhu, you can't throw this broom around, don't you see that the little loach has become an old man now? What if you smash him?"

"That's it, Brother Tiezhu, you have to be careful!"

Several voices came one after another, and the old man only felt that his heart was fluttering, fluttering!

In the courtyard, he saw several familiar figures appear, including the familiar and strong Brother Tiezhu, the clever ghost Sanwa, and the very honest Niu Sheng, all of whom were still very young and in their twenties, standing in front of him, looking at him with a smile.

These figures, who had been separated for I don't know how many years, jumped out of his memory one by one, making his heart tremble fiercely.

"You're finally ...... It's out!!" Looking at the familiar faces, the old man trembled and burst into tears.

On this night, many people were nostalgic for the past, and many people saw the old people in the past.

This night was a very unquiet night for Shangyun City.