I was stunned, I didn't expect Jiaqi to be so sensible and make such a wish.

But at this moment, I finally understood from Jiaqi's words how much Jiaqi cherished me and how afraid she was of losing me.

What I just said to her must have stimulated her.

"Kiki's wish will come true. Papa won't leave Kiki again, Papa just scared Kiki. That's all I can say, and then I touched Jiaqi's head, "Come on, Kiki, let's start eating roast duck!" Then, pulling over the bench to the side, sitting down with Jiaqi, and starting our dinner.

Jiaqi, who had calmed down, was already hungry, and when she saw that she was finally going to start eating roast duck, she still couldn't hold it back and became greedy.

Although she has a small appetite, Jiaqi still likes to eat. In normal times, Jiaqi is a little guy who likes to eat snacks very much, and never refuses to eat more than two bites in addition to vegetables when eating, but she is very greedy for snacks. Perhaps women are naturally gluttonous creatures.

While serving Jiaqi food, I listened to the sound of rain outside the window, looked at the reflection of me and Jiaqi's faces on the dark windowpane, and thought, this is the meaning of Qingming.

Mourn those who have left us and bless those who are still with us. Nostalgia for the buried past and cherish ...... Those will eventually become the present of the past.

Dinner was over for a long time, because Jiaqi's appetite was not big, and the meal was relatively rich, it took a lot of time to eliminate it, and in the end, after eating a table of meals, the main force was still me.

After eating, I tidied up the table, I wanted to watch TV with Jiaqi for a while, but I didn't expect the old house to be in disrepair, and the cable TV was already damp and moldy, so I couldn't watch TV at all, there was no way, so I had to plan to go to bed with Jiaqi early.

It's just that when I was taking out the garbage in the kitchen, I stumbled upon a briquette stove, and there was a sack of unused black charcoal next to the stove.

At that time, I had an idea, and thinking that there was still a lot of sausages and eggs left over from the bag of sausages and eggs I had brought, I decided to have a barbecue party.

So I moved the briquette stove from the kitchen to the lobby and lit the black charcoal with straw paper to prepare for the barbecue.

"Kiki, come here, we're going to have a barbecue tonight. At my call, Jiaqi also trotted out of the living room, and saw me holding the stove to make a fire, Jiaqi was full of curiosity.

"Papa, what's it to find a tube?"

"It's called a 'briquette stove', it's used to make a fire, it's something that only exists in the countryside, and we're going to use it to make a fire and barbecue tonight. Kiki, go get the sausages out, papa make a fire, and we'll eat the grilled sausages later. ”

"Okay, okay. Hearing me say that I want to grill sausages, Jiaqi suddenly smiled, the haze on her face had been swept away, and she immediately went to the living room to find sausages.

That night, it was raining heavily, and in the lobby of the old house, I lit a warm charcoal fire, and Jiaqi and I gathered around the stove and ate grilled sausages while drying cold hands.

Although the tools are simple and the ingredients are not complete, Jiaqi still eats with relish, her long little thin tongue adds lips several times, and her originally lost little face finally has a happy color.

"Kiki, is it delicious?"

"It's delicious, it's delicious, it's just a little hot...... Whew. Jiaqi didn't look at me, just stared at the sausage in her hand and blew.

Seeing Jiaqi eating very energetically and her mouth full of oil, I felt extremely satisfied.

What could be more emotional in this world than sitting in front of a warm oven with your beloved girl and eating barbecue while watching the rain?

It wasn't until the rain became less that our "barbecue party" finally fell to an end, I extinguished the charcoal fire, and then carried Jiaqi up the squeaky wooden staircase with the quilt in my arms, and slept in the room around the corner on the second floor.

Because I went to bed earlier than usual, and the excitement of eating barbecue before, Jiaqi and I couldn't fall asleep immediately, and the two of us were lying in a quilt, sleeping opposite each other, big eyes to small eyes, very funny.

But neither Jiaqi nor I laughed.

We just looked at each other in silence and slept together.

It was still raining outside, and although it was much smaller, it still didn't stop.

The trickling raindrops fell on the old roof made of tiles, making a crisp and melodious sound like music, like a ringing sound in the depths of the soul.

Of course, when the cold wind blows outside, there will also be the rustle of grass and trees, and at that time, the whole world will be silent, and only the rustling sound will be heard with a sense of sleepiness, like a call from a dream from the farthest distance.

The sound of rain, the wind, the sound of tiles, and the swaying of plants and trees all constitute the most primitive and beautiful music that can only be found in my hometown.

It is like the souls of our departed ancestors calling to us.

On that rainy night, I thought of many, many people, my grandparents, my parents, my relatives, my classmates and friends, as well as Ma Yike, Mr. Chen, those who left a mark on my life.

At the end of the memories, I found that in the end, Jiaqi was the only one who was by my side.

Even in the dark, Jiaqi's eyes reflected a faint light like black diamonds.

Sleeping cuddle with me, Jiaqi stared at me all the time.

"Papa, I want to listen to the story. Jiaqi said.

"Okay. Papa tells you the story that Papa's grandfather told. "Jiaqi's idea is exactly what I thought, because when I was a child, my grandparents also told me stories in the same bed where I sleep now.

"A long time ago, there was a fairy who came to Grandpa Papa's village, and she fell in love with a young man in the village, and the young man fell in love with her, and they wanted to live together. But then the Jade Emperor found out, and he was very angry, and said how could a fairy like a mortal? So he separated the fairy from the young man, and the Jade Emperor drove the fairy to the Xibai Mountain, and separated the village and the Xibai Mountain with a great river, so that they could not see each other. But the fairy was very powerful, and she missed the young man very much, so she made bricks out of the stones on the West White Mountain, built a rainbow bridge in the air, and spread it one by one, all the way to the village where the young man was, wanting to meet him. However, this matter was discovered by the Jade Emperor, and when the fairy had built 99,999 bricks, and one was about to be paved to the door of the young man's house, the Jade Emperor sent someone to break the rainbow bridge and drive the fairy back to Xibai Mountain. In this way, the fairy will never see the young man she loves so much again, and can only look at the colorful clouds on the top of Xibai Mountain every day, hoping that one day the weather will be sunny and she will see her beloved from afar. Until today, there are many colorful bricks in Shanghai on the mountain road of Xibai Mountain, and if Qiqi goes, you can still see it. (This story is true, it was told to me by my grandfather, it is definitely not my fiction)"

Listening to my story, Jiaqi was fascinated, and her black pearl-like eyes looked straight at me.

"Ah, really? Papa, can you take me to Xibai Mountain to pick up a brick in the future?" ”

"Okay. I'll take Kiki with me when I get a chance in the future. But what is Kiki going to do when she picks up bricks?" I said with a smile.

"Hmm......" After thinking about it, Jiaqi said seriously, "I'm going to build a new rainbow bridge so that the fairy and her husband can meet." ”

"Haha, you little fool. Listening to Jiaqi's silly words, I immediately laughed.

But Jiaqi didn't laugh.

She just looked at me earnestly, as if to say that a very lofty ideal was being ridiculed.

Seeing Jiaqi's expression, I couldn't laugh at once.

Jiaqi stared at me for a long time, and then said:

"Papa, tell me another story. I'm going to listen to it too. ”

I was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Okay, let me tell you the story of 'Shipwreck Mountain', a long, long time ago......"

The rain is still falling, the wind is still blowing, and the sound of the rain is still there.

I don't know when, Jiaqi has already fallen asleep.

In the dark wooden hut, all that was left was my muttering, which was low and long, reverberating slowly for a long time......