I watched Jiaqi's actions without blinking.

The little guy, who didn't know what he bought, waved his hand at the proprietress in the store after paying, and then turned around under the kind smiling face of the proprietress. At that time, I saw that Jiaqi had two cups of milk tea in each hand.

Why did Jiaqi buy two cups of milk tea?

Seeing Jiaqi come out with two cups of milk tea, I was a little puzzled.

But my doubts were soon answered.

After Jiaqi walked out of the shop, she walked to another little girl standing at the door of the shop with a smile, and handed her the milk tea in her hand with a smile, while Jiaqi was also talking happily.

Because of the angle, I only saw the back of the girl, who looked a little thinner than Jiaqi, with two small braids. After getting Jiaqi's milk tea, the girl also seemed to be smiling.

I was a little happy to see this. I didn't expect Jiaqi, a little guy, to be so young, but he already knew how to share happiness with others.

It seems that Jiaqi still gets along well with others at school.

Under my gaze, the two little guys walked out of the small shop with a smile while drinking milk tea, giggling along the way, and didn't know what they were talking about.

Seeing this, I finally couldn't help but roll down the window and shout to Jiaqi in the distance.

"Kiki!"

Hearing my screams, Jiaqi was stunned for a moment, then her little head looked around, and finally found me not far away.

"Papa, papa!" Seeing me, Jiaqi smiled and trotted over, her eyes narrowing into crooked lines and her long eyelashes coming together.

"Kiki, what are you drinking? Let Papa drink a little too. Seeing the milk tea in Jiaqi's hand, I opened the car door and let Jiaqi sit in. Because Jiaqi is very small, she usually sits in the driver's seat with me. I drove while she sat on my lap.

"It's milk tea, papa, for you to drink!" Jiaqi listened to me very much, and as soon as I said that I wanted to drink it, she obediently held it up and handed it to me to drink without even thinking about it.

Seeing Jiaqi's actions, I felt indescribably warm in my heart, and picked up the milk tea in Jiaqi's hand and took a few sips.

"Kiki, who is this little sister?" After drinking the milk tea, I motioned for Jiaqi to sit on my lap, and at the same time I asked the little girl behind Jiaqi.

"Hmm...... She is Li Mengting. Jiaqi whispered to me.

"It's Kiki's classmate?"

"Hmm!" Jiaqi nodded, then turned around and waved her little hand at the little girl named Li Mengting, and said, "Mengmeng, goodbye!"

The little girl also smiled and waved at Jiaqi, but when she saw my gaze, she was a little timid and didn't dare to look at me, looking like a girl who was very afraid of life.

I winked at the little girl, then let Jiaqi sit in the car, put Jiaqi's schoolbag in the passenger seat, closed the door, and drove out of the street in front of the school.

"Kiki, are you having fun at school today?"

"Happy~~" Jiaqi sat on my lap and replied to me in a loud voice.

"Is there anything fun going on at school today?"

When I asked this, Jiaqi was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Today's school math exam." ”

"Oh, today's math exam? How many points did Kiki take?" I was a little surprised to hear Jiaqi say today's math exam, I didn't expect that the current primary school is quite strict, and I have already taken the exam more than a month after the start of school.

"Hee-hee-......" Jiaqi covered her mouth and laughed mysteriously, without answering me, and then, she suddenly pulled the schoolbag on the passenger seat, opened the schoolbag and fumbled for a while, then took out a white exam paper, and unfolded it in front of me.

"Hee-hee, papa, look!"

Following Jiaqi's voice, I glanced at Jiaqi's exam paper, and when I saw the bright red 100 points above the exam paper, my brows jumped, but my heart was very surprised.

"Yo, Kiki scored another 100 points. I glanced at Jiaqi's test paper in surprise, "Qiqi is really smart." Come, let Papa kiss it. I reached out and touched Jiaqi's head, and then kissed Jiaqi's white forehead, and Jiaqi looked at me with joy and pride.

Seriously, every time Jiaqi gives me a test paper, she can surprise me.

After more than a semester of repeated excellent results, Jiaqi has fully demonstrated her outstanding talent. Whether it is a small test or a big test, Jiaqi has almost never scored below 97 points. And in last year's final exam, Jiaqi also took a double hundred, although it is not uncommon for such a result to be in the first grade of primary school, but for Jiaqi, who has never even gone to kindergarten, it really gave me a big surprise.

Under my touch, Jiaqi snuggled into my arms with a grin.

"Kiki, you're so smart, Papa is so happy, today, Papa is going to take you to a place you haven't been to before. ”

"Where are you going?" Hearing me say that I was going to take her to play, Jiaqi immediately became happy, and she rarely went out since she was a child

"Go to Papa's hometown. I replied to Jiaqi with a smile.

Hearing my words, Jiaqi's eyes widened with excitement, and I was also in a good mood.

Ten minutes later, I took Jiaqi back to the house, left Jiaqi's schoolbag at home, and after some preparations, I took her out of the house again, got into my fuel-filled car, and drove down the familiar street.

This time, I'm going to take Jiaqi out of the farthest distance in the eight years since she was born.

I'm going to my hometown, Jiaqi is very excited, in fact, as long as I take Jiaqi out to play, this little girl will shout excitedly and can't stop.

Although Jiaqi is born with a character tendency to yearn for travel and freedom.

I don't know how Jiaqi's personality tendencies came about, maybe because she has been confined to my home since she was a child. Because she has never really seen the vast world outside, she will especially yearn for the outside world, the distant world. I also vividly remember the exclamation every time Jiaqi saw some beautiful scenery on TV, and sometimes, she would stupidly point to the TV screen and say, "Papa, I want to go there."

Since then, I have known that Jiaqi yearns for the distance and longs for freedom.

She doesn't like to be confined to life.

Even, maybe she didn't like to be restrained by me, but she never said it to me.

But who can guarantee that one day she will tell me to my face that she wants to be free?

Will one day, Jiaqi finally leave me like a wild goose flying into the distance?

I do not know.

At the time, I didn't know the answer.

The car drove slowly, through familiar streets, through block after block, towards the edge of the city.

Ahead, in the direction of my father's hometown.

My father's hometown is not in the city, but in a small village at the foot of a mountain dozens of kilometers away from the city.

Of course, it was a few years ago that it was a village, but now that many years have passed, my dad's village has now grown into a small town.

But despite this, my father's hometown was at the very edge of the town, in a corner at the foot of the hill behind the town.

My grandfather, my grandmother, my father, and my three aunts came out of that nameless foothill.

Although he was later worth millions, my father was indeed born in the countryside, and he has not forgotten his origin. When I was a child, my father used to tell me about his childhood, and he always told me how many hardships he went through step by step from the countryside, from sitting up as a mechanic to setting up his own company.

From my father's story, I know that the unknown foot of the mountain is the starting point of his life.

It wasn't until five years ago that he returned to the foot of that little mountain and was buried there forever.

So that little foot of the mountain is both the initial starting point and the end point of Dad.

Sometimes life is a circle, maybe you think you have gone very far, but in the end, you will still return to the starting point.

My father's hometown is far away from my city, and even though there was no traffic jam on the road, it took me nearly an hour and a half to reach my father's old village.

It was past four o'clock when Jiaqi and I set off, and when I drove into my father's village, it was almost six o'clock. The sky was mostly gloomy during the Qingming season, and by the time I got to my father's hometown, the sun had already set, and the sky was already half dark, and the whole town looked very dark.

The familiar old streets and the old building layout are still the same as I remember, not much different from when I was a child.

Because it was past the end of work, there were not many passers-by on the streets, and if they did, most of them were farmers dressed simply, and most of them were in their 40s and 50s.

Over the years, with the rise of the younger generation in the countryside, most of the young and middle-aged people are unwilling to stay in their hometowns to dry the farmland, but choose to look for jobs in other places, so most of the residents who stay in this old place in the end are the older generation who are unwilling to leave their homeland.

Every time I come here, I always feel that the street is still the same, but the faces on the street are getting older and older every time, which makes me feel a little desolate.

The car drove through the streets of the town, and I knew every street here. Jiaqi, who was sitting on her lap, turned sideways, grabbed the lower edge of the window with her small hand, and looked out curiously.

For Jiaqi, it was the first time to walk so far and come to such a strange place, of course, her heart was full of novelty and excitement.

"Papa, a lot of dogs. ”

Lying in front of the car window, Jiaqi suddenly turned around and called me excitedly.

"Yes, this is the countryside, and many people have dogs. Kiki, aren't you happy to see so many puppies?"

"Hmm!" said Gaki, "but, papa, papa." Why does the dog here look different from the little yellow at home?"

Xiao Huang is a long-haired dog raised by my family, and it is a pet dog I bought after Xiaobai died, so of course the appearance is different from the local dogs in the countryside. But for Jiaqi, she has never seen many dogs in her life, so of course she is curious to see all kinds of dogs in the countryside.

"Xiao Huang is a pet dog, and the dogs here are all wolf dogs, they are not only fierce, but also bite people. Papa was bitten by a wolfdog when he was a child, and his feet were broken. ”

"Huh?" It seemed that when I said this, Jiaqi was really scared, and her voice was lowered. "Papa, what if they bite me?"

"It's okay, there's Papa. ”

"Didn't Papa get bitten?"

"In the past, Papa was young and couldn't beat the dog, so he was bitten, but now that Papa has grown up, the dog is afraid of Papa and doesn't dare to bite it. ”

"Oh. Papa is amazing. ”

"Hehe, okay Kiki, don't stick your head out, it's dangerous. ”

"Oh. Hearing my order, Jiaqi still retracted her head from the window and sat firmly on my lap, but a pair of sparkling eyes still kept looking at the scenery outside the car.

It was a nice ride, because the town was not very large, and after about ten minutes, I drove to the outskirts of the town, where there were vast fields with a few scattered houses.

On the northeast side of the town, there is a mountain road that winds up the mountain road, and at the end of that mountain road is my father's hometown.

By the time I drove up the trail, it was completely dark and very oppressive, as if it was going to rain.

It is already rainy during the Qingming season, so it is not surprising that the weather conditions are like this.

Because the sky was completely overcast. So the scenery outside couldn't be seen clearly, so Jiaqi didn't look out curiously, but calmed down and was comforted by the wind outside the car window, and accidentally fell asleep on my stomach like that.