Seeing Cheng Shaojie and a group of old people playing chess under a tree on the side of the road, I walked over, saw that he had obviously gained the upper hand, and felt that there was nothing to look forward to and was about to leave, he saw that I was going to go, so he pushed away the chess and said, "No play, go home for dinner."

I glanced at Cheng Shaojie, who was following me, and said, "Don't let you play mahjong, you're in a hurry, and you went to play chess with a group of old men, and you are young in that group, and no one laughs at you?" ”

Cheng Shaojie said with a smile: "Now the whole village knows that you control me strictly, and they don't dare to play cards with me. However, there is no other entertainment in the village except playing cards and drinking, so you can't sit on a bank like a group of women and chew your tongue, right? ”

I smiled and squinted at him and said, "What's wrong with that, I like to hear them say that the east family is short and the west family is short, last time I heard my mother say that the landlord of the Mei Duo family wants to go back to Linshui Village, is it true?" ”

"It's true, I heard Wang Shi say that the two old people have been in the city for more than ten years and are still not used to it, the older they get, the more homesick they are, and now their grandchildren are older, and there is nothing to do in the city to be in a hurry, often saying that they want to come back, but the sons do not agree, but the two old men are very resolute, and they may plan to come back soon."

Wang Shi's family and the two old men are relatives, what he said should be right, in this way, the Meiduo family will have to choose another place to settle down.

"Then you and your sister should discuss marrying Mei Duo back as soon as possible, if her parents are willing, don't find a place to rent a house and live here."

Cheng Shaojie smiled: "How many more people do you plan to move in?" Usually, I see you do everything as simple as possible, the quieter the better, I don't see that you still like to be so lively."

I reached out to reach for the leaves on the hanging branches, pinched them between my fingers and rubbed them, and said: "Children and grandchildren are around the knees, and the joy of family is the greatest happiness for the elderly, but now it is clear that Cheng Jiahui and Li Haoyu will not live here, and we will have to wait for more than ten years before I can live here." Now the old people in the countryside are also quite pitiful, their children are working hard outside, and they stay here alone, even if they go to the city or in a strange environment, they are even more lonely. The older people are, the more afraid they are of loneliness, let Sun Linbing and the eldest sister's family move in, others look at them as taking advantage, and you should be grateful to them, they will accompany and take care of your parents more than you in the future, otherwise the two old people will guard an empty yard and big house all day long, and it feels uncomfortable to think about it."

Cheng Shaojie walked beside me silently, and said quietly for a while: "Still, when I get old, I will always pamper you, accompany you, take care of you, and never make you feel lonely."

I smiled slightly, looking up at the sunset in the west, gorgeous and quiet. When Chen Jingde left, he said, 'Still, don't be alone'. I'm not alone now, I don't know where he is, what he's doing?

When passing by the yard of Mei Duo's house, I saw a car parked in front of the yard, and a middle-aged man with glasses came out of the yard, Cheng Shaojie walked over to greet him, I stood in the distance and watched them, the middle-aged man shook hands with Cheng Shaojie, and the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, only to see the man reach out and pat the big tree on the side of the road, look up at the dense tree, and turn his face to Cheng Shaojie to speak. I know that this should be one of the three sons of the Wang family.

I walked forward slowly, and Cheng Shaojie walked quickly to me after greeting and said, "It's the third son of the Wang family just now, he will clean up the house when he comes back, and send his parents back after a while."

"It seems that his parents are in good health, otherwise it would be inconvenient for only two old people to come back to live," I said.

"He said it's okay, the two old men are in their seventies, very stubborn, they say that they want to come back, I don't want Mei Duo's parents to move out, even the rent is free, he wants to build two new houses next to it for the old people to live in."

I smiled and said, "Convenience with others is actually convenience with yourself, this person's books are not bad, does he himself miss the life here?" ”。

Cheng Shaojie said with a smile: "He said so, but after all, he is already from the city, and it is also a thought in his heart to say that he likes it, how can he really live here." However, he was born and raised here, and his parents lived here, so he had the opportunity to come back often, and his two older brothers heard that their parents were going back to live in the village, and they also asked him to repair the house, and maybe they would have to come back in the future."

"Parents are here, this is the hometown, no matter how far the children go, there is a concern here, once the parents die, no one knows where to find a concern," I said with some sadness.

Walking through a large open space, in front of which is my yard, I thought about it and said, "I want to build a basketball court on this open space, so that the young people in the village can have a place to move, and the villagers can also have a place to watch the excitement."

Cheng Shaojie immediately responded: "Okay, this idea is good, I used to play the best basketball ball, and now young people have time to either drink or play cards, and no one plays this anymore."

Cheng Shaojie said that he would do it, and in less than a month, a brand new basketball court was built. On the afternoon of the opening of the court, the men, women, young and old of the village gathered around the court to watch the excitement, everyone would throw the basketball twice, but few people could actually play the game.

Cheng Shaojie and Li Yanhong each chose four people to play half the game, and when they politely pushed me to warm up, I walked up to Cheng Shaojie and Li Yanhong and said, "I'll pay 500 yuan to invite the winning team to drink."

I heard that there was a bonus, and the atmosphere on the field was immediately different, the people on the field were fighting for each other, and the people outside the field were also cheering and cheering for the atmosphere on the field, and they were either relatives or friends with the people who played on the field, and then they shouted and shouted more anxious than the people on the field.

Cheng Shaojie played the blue ball really well, he had good physical fitness, he was agile, and although he hadn't played for a long time, he still shot a few three-pointers.

The people in Cheng Shaojie's group are all people who have played with him before, and they have a tacit understanding with each other, while Li Yanhong's group is relatively young, and they are full of physical strength.

Cheng Shaojie was a little frustrated, stood under the ball rack and pointed at Wang Shishi and said, "You can't run faster, it's obviously a gap ball passed to you and people are blocking it."

Wang Shishi was still bent over to slow his breath, and when he heard Cheng Shaojie reprimanding him, he was unconvinced: "I don't know how to run if I can run fast, can't I run fast, you still think it was twenty years ago?" ”

"If you can't run, just shoot, you won't see someone cut off the ball" Cheng Shaojie still roared unrelentingly.

"It's too far to throw in," Wang Shishi replied unhappily.

I listened to them arguing, took the ball and dribbled it on the court for a while, familiarized myself with the ball, stood outside the three-point line and waved a three-pointer, and the ball went in a few laps around the rim. Cheng Shaojie saw that I threw the ball into the basket, stopped arguing with Wang Shishi and looked at me. He didn't believe that I could shoot a three-point shot, so he picked up the blue ball and threw it to me, meaning to let me shoot again to see if I could throw it again, I smiled, dribbled and jumped up and shot another three-pointer, this was more accurate than the one just now, and went in without touching the blue basket, Cheng Shaojie picked up the ball and walked to me and looked at me and threw the ball to me and said: "Throw another one."

I took the ball and dribbled the ball to the basket with a smile, a three-step blue threw the ball into the blue basket, I picked up the ball myself and stood under the rack and slapped the ball ready to go to the blue again, Cheng Shaojie came over to make an interception posture, I smiled and stared at him while dribbling left and right, he also followed my movements to block left and right, my eyes stared at him, my body shook to the left, Cheng Shaojie also took a step to the left, but I suddenly made a horizontal pass, passed the ball to Li Yanhong standing under the blue ball rack on my right, although I did not hint at him before passing, but in the end it was a young man with fast eyes, saw the ball fly over, and poured it into the basket with both hands. Everyone in the room burst out laughing.

I put the ball on the net and hung it on the rack and said, "Let's practice when everyone is fine, and we'll have a real game when we're done in the fall."

"Is there a bonus?" Someone shouted.

"Yes," I said

"How much?"

At this time, Li Yanhong said: "One thousand, I'll go out"

Cheng Shaojie said: "Do you think you will win next time?" ”

Li Yanhong said: "I will pay for it or not, you have paid for the floor, buy a basketball rack, and play basketball to keep fit is much better than sitting there playing cards and gambling money, which is also a good thing for the people in the village, and we should also make some efforts, don't you say?" ”。

The people watching the excitement next to him all coaxed: "Okay, more bonuses"

Li Yanhong said very arrogantly: "No problem"

On the way back, I said to Cheng Shaojie: "Li Yanhong, this young man is very good."

Cheng Shaojie pouted and smiled and said, "He is a very smart and capable young man, why do you think he is so enthusiastic today?" He wants to run for village chief next year."

I said "oh" and stopped talking, watching our new house not far away, standing lonely and peaceful in the shade of greenery in the already dim sunset.

Cheng Shaojie looked at me sideways and said, "You played basketball well!" ”

I smiled and didn't say anything.

"I knew you played so well, I should have brought you to our group just now, and I would definitely be able to beat them.

I raised my head and smiled softly at the sunset that was about to disappear in the sky, many years ago Chen Yixiao loved to say: "Still, the two of us beat the three of them", Chen Jingde said: "You go abroad to the world!" ”。 The time that used to be is now like the irrevocable sunset, gone.

Cheng Shaojie suddenly reached out and grabbed my hand, I instinctively shrank slightly, but he grabbed it very tightly, I didn't look at him, just smiled slightly and stopped refusing, and let him pull.

As long as I choose to live, a new sun will rise.