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The traditional custom of the Chinese is to sweep the graves of the elders who have died in the family during the Qingming New Year. Ji Hengdong is no exception.

He went to his biological mother Liu Jiangnan three times a year, once for the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, once for Qingming, and once for her death day. In the past, he bought the things to sweep the tomb in the city, drove alone to the suburbs in the early morning, put his mother's favorite fruit and snacks there, chatted with her, and then smoked a cigarette while the sun was in full bloom when he was going back.

But this year, there was one more person.

When Ji Hengdong and Chu Weiyuan discussed this matter, they also thought about it for a long time before speaking. "I'm just thinking about letting her see you, and if you don't go, I won't force you......"

Who knew that Chu Weiwan did not hesitate after hearing this, and simply nodded and agreed. Ji Hengdong looked at her in surprise, "You don't taboo this?" I thought...... If you are Chinese New Year's Eve, you will feel unlucky. ”

Chu Wei was willing to laugh and asked Ji Hengdong. "What's there to be taboo about? Aunt Liu is your mother, if we can be together in the future, she is also my mother, why should you be taboo to see your relatives? ”

She said it normally, without any pretentious elements in it. Ji Hengdong's Adam's apple rolled up and down with difficulty, and it took a long time to touch her head and smile. "Okay, then I'll wait for you at the old place in the morning."

Ji Hengdong goes to sweep the tomb at this time of year, and Ji Boling knows it. Early in the morning, someone in the family was busy pasting Spring Festival couplets to prepare dishes, Ji Boling tensed his back downstairs and waited for the sound of the door slamming upstairs, it was hard for such a respected old man outside to wait for his son to be tortured at home, but who knew that Ji Hengdong didn't even look at him when he cleaned up and went downstairs, and walked out whistling.

Ji Boling was stunned, as if this kid didn't seem to go to the cemetery to worship his mother at all, but as if he had attended some kind of party, but...... Isn't that black dress obviously prepared for this time?

Chu Weiyuan, who was on the other side, also got up early in the morning to clean up, and chose a black wool dress from the cabinet, without even putting on makeup, and was a little relieved with a clean and transparent face. She never thought of it...... Ji Hengdong will attach so much importance to himself, so much so that he takes her to see his mother.

Sui Qing and her aunt at home were downstairs preparing dumpling fillings, and they were startled when they saw her coming downstairs dressed in plain clothes. Sui Qing looked at her daughter a little surprised, "This is the New Year, where are you going to dress like this?" I bought you the red dress last week, why don't you change it on, it's festive. ”

Chu Weiyuan reached out and pinched the dim sum on the table, and replied vaguely. "A colleague's mother died, and I went to mourn, and it was not appropriate for us to work together."

Sui Qing was not very happy, "Why did you choose it at this time, how unlucky." The aunt on the side also nodded in agreement. No, it's not a good idea. Wish, just do the etiquette, don't follow to those places, our girl's family, can't be guilty of causing a mess for this. ”

Seeing that it was the time agreed by the two, Chu Wei replied with a hmm, and walked out while putting on his shoes. "You don't have to wait for me for lunch, come back in the afternoon to have Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with you, I'll go!!"

"Hey!" Sui Qing put down the chopsticks in her hand and hurriedly followed a few steps out, and instructed her uneasily. "Listen to your aunt, come back early."

Drive from the city to the cemetery, at least two hours. Ji Hengdong listened to Chu Weiyuan's words, and went around the city in a big circle before he found a flower shop that was open day and night. Seeing that the boss was about to close and go home for the New Year, Chu Weiyuan hurriedly ran out of the car and stopped him from closing the store. Ji Hengdong was afraid that she would have a conflict with others and hurt herself again, so he hurriedly grabbed her and explained it. "You don't have to buy flowers, you just have to do what you want, actually...... If you can go with me, it's the best for my mother. ”

Chu Wei was about to get out of the car when he took off his seat belt, and shook his head at him seriously. "No, you wait for me, I'll be back soon."

The boss didn't want to do business anymore, but he couldn't stand the sincerity that Chu Wei was willing to say, and the little girl's mouth was sweet, so the two of them pushed the roller shutter door outside the store up. There was not much stock of flowers in the flower shop, and when Chu Weiyuan finally came out with a large bouquet of cornflowers, something suddenly flashed in Ji Hengdong's mind.

Cornflowers are white and look fresh when wrapped in brownish-yellow brown paper. He glanced casually and asked casually. "How do you buy such a flower, isn't it usually white chrysanthemum or something?"

Chu Wei was willing to carefully put the flowers in the back row, and he didn't think about it so much, so he replied simply. "I remember Aunt Liu didn't plant it in your yard when she was alive? Later, a hailstorm wilted, and she was distressed for a long time, she ...... I guess I like this. ”

Ji Hengdong nodded, drove the car to the highway and stopped talking, and suddenly had a plan in his heart. The two were speechless all the way, and when they arrived at the cemetery, Chu Wei obediently carried a trunk of things and followed behind Ji Hengdong, watching him take out a whole large plate of artillery battles.

On the tombstone, Liu Jiangnan's gentle smiling face has not changed for many years. Not even a trace of dust was contaminated.

Ji Hengdong hung the long firecracker in his hand on a pine tree not far from the tombstone, squinted and lit a cigarette, he wore a pair of sheepskin black gloves, and looked very good in the morning light.

He turned back and said, "Wish, stand far away, don't collapse." ”

The fuse swallowed the flames and crackled, Ji Hengdong didn't hide, only took a few steps forward, looked at Liu Jiangnan's photo, bowed three times with a calm face, and his voice was calm. "Mom, it's the New Year, I'll give you a lively sound, Dongzi took your daughter-in-law to see you today, you also know, it's the girl who always cried when she lived in our house when she was a child. Come—"

The 100,000 firecrackers were deafening, Chu Wei was willing to step on a piece of red shredded paper with something in both hands, no matter what Ji Hengdong told her, she had already knelt on the ground on one knee by herself, took □□ hearts, fruits, and flowers, and placed them on the tombstone politely and respectfully. After everything was in order, she stood up and bowed three times like Ji Hengdong.

"Aunt Liu, I'm wishing."

It is the heavy winter, and the sun shines through the gray sky like a pool of water, and the hearts of people who shine are warm. With a simple name, she can make Ji Hengdong compensate for all his unwillingness and loss in the past. She stood obediently beside him, and he could see her when he turned around.

Ji Hengdong suddenly thought, people are born, old, sick and die, but fate is impermanent, the reincarnation of the world, although the death of his mother is the heaviest and most obscure past in his life, but now there is a Chu wish, but it can settle the grudge debt in his heart.

On the tombstone, Liu Jiangnan smiled softly, like a loving mother looking at her favorite child.

Ji Hengdong took Chu Weiyuan's hand and asked unexpectedly. "How many years have you been coming here before me?"

"Huh?" Chu Weiyuan looked at Ji Hengdong blankly, but his heart was shocked. "What did you say?"

Ji Hengdong sighed when he saw that she didn't admit it. Leaned over and pulled out one from the bouquet of cornflowers, and gestured in front of Chu Weiyuan's eyes. "Still don't admit it? Every time I come in August, there are always people who have come before me, and in the past two years I have deliberately delayed the days or forward, but it is evil, that person can really avoid me, every time, right here," he pointed to the place where Chu Wei was willing to put the flowers, "there are exactly the same cornflowers you bought, this place is not monitored, I asked the person in charge here, and they never mentioned it to me." ”

"Last summer, I met Xiao Wenyin here, at first I always thought that she came to see my mother, and I was quite moved, but the reaction of you to hear me mention this incident in the box that day was really ...... It's so imaginative, it wasn't until that day when I had a showdown with her because you were hospitalized that Xiao Wenyin told me the truth, this flower was not bought by her at all. ”

"Chu Weiyi, only you can find my way and still carry me on my back."

Ji Hengdong pinned the cornflower in his hand to Chu Weiyuan's coat pocket, and his movements were gentle. "Such a coincidence, wish, aren't you going to tell the truth?"

Caught in the current ...... Chu Wei closed his eyes in annoyance, and his two fingers were almost entangled. If she doesn't speak, she acquiesces.

Ji Hengdong asked, "When did it start?" ”

She lowered her head, her voice small. "When you studied abroad, I heard from my brother that you asked him to come to see Aunt Liu."

"Why?"

yes, why? Chu Weiyuan also wanted to ask himself why he came here again and again every year to visit a person who had nothing to do with him.

Chu Weiyuan is a clear person, she has not yet learned how to hide her clumsiness and truth in this vast world. Looking at Liu Jiangnan, she felt sullen in her heart. "Fourth brother, don't you laugh at me when I say it?"

"I've liked you since I was a kid and like you to ...... I don't know how many years it has been, and then you went to Canada and I hugged you at the airport and cried miserably, everyone thought that I cried because I couldn't take advantage of you, but in fact it wasn't, I was afraid that I would never see you again and you would never come back. I really don't want you to go...... I always feel that if you are gone, there will be no more arrogant and arrogant people in this world, although my brother also loves me, but you give me the feeling ...... It's not the same. ”

"Later, when I heard you tell my brother that I wanted him to help me see my aunt, I had this idea, you are not here, I always want to do something for you, as if this is the only way to get closer to you. During the years when you were studying outside, I secretly drove over behind my brother's back, and knowing that Aunt Liu likes flowers, I brought a bouquet of cornflowers and told her about you outside, thinking that maybe this would be the case, and you would be able to rest assured. ”

"When you come back, I can't change this habit, Aunt Liu is your mother, I think even if you can't be with me, I don't love you for nothing if I do this, at least, I have paid some for this relationship, and I will not regret it when I think about it when I get old."

She said seriously and attentively, and in the end, there were crystal tears faintly in the corners of her eyes.

Ji Hengdong listened silently, and when she Chu Wei was willing to tell about the past, his heart felt as if he was being pinched and pinched. Every sentence is like a nail pierced deep into it, although it bleeds, it is enough to make people unforgettable. But after being with her for a few days, she has moved herself more than she has seen in half her life.

Seeing Chu Weiyuan standing here with red eyes, Ji Hengdong suddenly remembered a TV series that he had been forced to watch by her before.

In the TV series, it was also the same girl who couldn't help but see his deceased mother for the sake of his love, but no matter how hard the girl tried, she finally missed the boy, and later, when the two met in the cemetery, the girl looked into the distance with a long look, and there was a sadness of passing a thousand sails.

She said, madman, thank you, every time you give me hope, it is so desperate.

He has watched a lot of films, and he has despised this kind of literary and sensational domestic absurd drama, but that day, that dramatic scene has endured in his mind for a long time, like a wake-up call.

Thinking of this, Ji Hengdong was horrified in his heart, and suddenly reached out and hugged her tightly.

The real warmth of his arms almost brought tears to his eyes, and he buried his head in her hair, his voice hoarse.

"I'm sorry."

I'm sorry I didn't respond to you earlier, and I missed all these years of torment with each other in vain.

Chu Wei's nose was sour by his movements, and he turned his head with a snort. "This should be my second confession, Ji Hengdong, you are not fair."

The car was parked outside in the pine forest, which was verdant and rich. Chu Wei was willing to stand proudly and aggrieved at the foot of the long steps and refused to go, like a New Year's doll who couldn't get candy to eat, Ji Hengdong smiled skillfully and picked her up, and even the smile lines in the corners of her eyes were much calmer than before.

"Cheng, in the future, I will confess to you every day, once a day, but if you listen to it and feel that I am not sincere, we will not finish, what you say is useless and written, you must make up for it."

"Lie to people, you ......"

"Who lied to you, who grandson."

"You were originally a grandson, and I don't know who was beaten by your own grandfather, and your back was bruised and purple."

"Hey-why are you going to dismantle the platform, girl, I won't carry you like this anymore, I have a back ache anyway, let's go down and go by myself......"

"Oops! Good fourth brother...... Fourth brother is the best......" 166 Reading Network