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The whole journey lasted more than three hours, and the car got off the cement road and drove on the flat and dry red dirt road, which was not yet noon.

The countryside is much better than Chen Yu imagined, there are no dilapidated thatched huts deep in the mountains like on TV, and the roads are smooth and wide.

The countryside has a wide view, the air is too good to be fake, the rape flowers have already bloomed, and the green rape fields stretch into the sea, leading to the distant mountains.

There are small bridges over clear streams, birds flying across the clear sky, many houses scattered all over the place, and the world is so peaceful.

Luo Zhixin leaned on the open car window and kept poking his head out, he was surprised at what he saw, his big eyes were like a buffalo on the side of the road, and he was asking "what is this" all the way.

There are fewer people on the road and fewer cars. The car drove slowly, and Li Chunxi patiently explained to the children every time. Chen Yu sat in his seat, and sometimes pricked up his ears to listen.

Chen Shao will also have things he doesn't know. Chen Shao, after all, also has curiosity.

Ten minutes later, another fork in the road, crossed a small bridge, the uphill road was a little steep, Li Chunxi suddenly said: "There is a front." ”

The car drove past a single-storey old house on the side of the road, an old man sat on a bench under the eaves and smoked a dry cigarette, the car slowly stopped in front of the old man, Li Chunxi pressed the window and shouted to the old man: "Second uncle." ”

The old man stood up, looked at the smiling young man with empty eyes, and finally exclaimed, "Lotus! It's you, boy! ”

The wrinkled old face was a little surprised and a little happy: "Your kid is back, what about your sister?" Still not going back this year? ”

"Well, she...... Not there. Li Chunxi's handsome face was warm and white in the sun, and after arriving in the countryside, Chen Yu felt that something had changed in his whole person.

The person driving the car next to him was not the superstar Li Chunxi, nor the Li Chunxi that Chen Yu had known since he was a teenager, but ...... He couldn't say it, he only saw that at this moment Li Chunxi and the sun were integrated, the brilliance was swimming on Li Chunxi's arms and face leaning out of the window, and the wind was also swimming in his eyes and eyelashes, without a trace of dirt, clean and clear, such a glance, this person seemed to have returned to a certain beginning that Chen Yu did not know.

At the moment when Chen Yu looked at Li Chunxi's side face, he even heard the sound of his own heartbeat.

"Then you come to my house for dinner at noon?" The second uncle walked to the car with his waist bent, and Li Chunxi nodded and said, "I'll come when I'm ready." ”

Then he turned back to Luo Zhixin on the children's chair and said, "Xinxin, this is the second grandfather, do you remember, the second grandfather knitted a straw hat for you last year." ”

This is the second time Li Chunxi has brought his nephew here, but obviously Luo Zhixin has no impression. Luo Xiaotu looked at the old man outside with wide eyes, although he couldn't remember that he had seen each other, he still shouted very obediently: "Second grandfather!" ”

"Who is this?" The old man looked at Chen Yu with empty eyes.

"This is Chen Yu, my friend, come to stay for a few days."

Chen Yu said hello to the old man, and after a few words of greeting, Li Chunxi restarted the car, and their car drove onto a small road, the road was narrow, just enough for a car to pass through Guò, one side of the road was a field, and the other side was a ground, but some of it was already overgrown with weeds.

After driving for a minute, I opened the path, and in front of me was a large clearing, the edge of which was planted with bamboo, and a towering old tree.

Next to the bamboo forest is a white brick house. Lee Chun-hee parked the car next to the house.

"This is my uncle's house, and I live here every year when I come back."

Turned off the fire and got out of the car, Chen Yu glanced at the two-story old house, and then went to the back compartment to pick up his luggage, Li Chunxi hugged Luo Zhixin and got out of the car.

Bypass the wall and you'll get to the main entrance.

The wall of the main courtyard is facing a very wide piece of land, and there is no obstruction in front of it, and the eyes are far and wide. Two faded doors were pasted on the red lacquered door, and the cracks in the steps outside the door were covered with grass, and the grass grew wildly outside the walls, and it looked like an almost abandoned house.

"My uncle's family hasn't been back for many years, and I only come once or twice a year." The young man took out the key, lowered his head and unlocked it, Chen Yu stood under the steps with the box and looked at the long back, and felt that Li Chunxi had an indescribable loneliness.

"You used to live here?" He asked behind his back.

The lock opened, Li Chunxi pushed the door with both hands, and the door "creaked" and slowly opened.

He turned around, took a box in Chen Yu's hand, and said, "No, it's just that when I was a child, I would come to live for a period of time every summer. ”

At that time, there were many people in their family, parents, grandparents, uncles and cousins, and other relatives, but now, life and death are separated, and everyone is scattered, but he is the only one who insists on coming back every year.

They entered, and inside was a large concrete yard, but many places were cracked or missing, and blue-black moss was running rampant in those places. A two-story building, a separate kitchen and a place like a place to raise livestock, plus two walls, enclose the yard.

The downstairs door is more faded than the courtyard door, and the picture posted on it is even more blurry and broken.

In one corner of the courtyard there was still a pile of jagged wood, and some other miscellaneous things that had been forgotten and discarded. Loneliness spreads under the clear sky. But many details piece together the atmosphere that was once lively a long time ago.

Chen Yu suddenly wanted to know what Li Chunxi was like, what kind of life he lived, and what kind of memories he left in this place before he met Li Chunxi.

The main entrance opens to the hall, and on both sides of the hall are rooms.

Li Chunxi took Chen Yu to the room on the right and asked him to put his luggage in the room: "You just live in this room, my grandparents used to live." I have asked my relatives to clean it in advance, and the beds are all freshly changed and very clean. ”

"What about you?" Chen Yu put down the box and asked.

"I live in another room with Xinxin, don't be afraid, although there is no one else within a radius of 100 meters, there will be no monsters to sneak up on you at night."

"Oh," Chen Yu's brow moved. He also thought that Li Chunxi would live with him, and the two of them had not lived separately since he moved to Li Chunxi's place for so long, except when one party did not go home.

Besides, Li Chunxi is a big wolf wearing the skin of a loyal dog, and he thought that the other party invited him to the countryside for some perverted purpose, but he actually didn't guess?

"But what if a youkai does come and attack me?" Chen Yu lowered his head and looked scared at Luo Xiaotu who was standing in the middle of them.

"Don't be afraid!" Luo Xiaotu lifted the big dinosaur that had been holding him in his arms: "To your uncle." The big dinosaur protects you, and it can drive the monsters away. ”

is really a solid-eyed child, no matter how you look at it, it is more real than Li Chunxi.

Chen Yu squatted down and held the dinosaur's neck to press it aside, revealing Luo Xiaotu's little face and two big eyes. "So what do you do? In case youkai come to you. Chen Yu asked.

"I have an uncle." Luo Xiaotu replied categorically.

"Your uncle—what a universal power." Chen Yu took Luo Xiaotu's dinosaur and accepted the child's kindness: "Then thank you, I won't be afraid of monsters these days." ”

Then he stood up and smiled at Li Chunxi, his face full of teasing.

"Why, you want me to protect you too?" Li Chunxi took Luo Zhixin and looked back at Chen Yu.

"I have big dinosaurs, I don't need an uncle." Chen Yu still had a smile on the corner of his mouth, thinking that he had won Li Chunxi.

"......" So Li Chunxi glanced at Chen Yu and led Luo Zhixin out of the hall.

Not only are the rooms clean, but the square tables and benches in the hall, as well as the cabinets, are clean and clean.

Li Chunxi dragged his luggage to another room, and Chen Yu put Luo Zhixin's dinosaur on the bedside, and then sat in the hall for a while. A few minutes later, Lee Chun-hee came out and asked, "Do you want to drink water?" ”

"Where does the water come from here?" Chen Yu asked rhetorically.

"Drink water, of course, burn it yourself, Chen Shao." Li Chunxi said: "Go out of the gate, there is firewood under the wall behind you, go and pick up some back." ”

"......" Chen Yu sat on the ground: "I'm not thirsty." ”

In the end, Chen Yu still reluctantly went out to find firewood.

Luo Zhixin followed him, one large and one small circled along the wall, and finally saw a large row of dry firewood that had been bundled up.

…… A bundle of firewood is taller than a person, do you want him to carry it back? Do you want his clothes? Lee Chun-hee did it on purpose.

The firewood was dragged back, and the freshly pumped well water was flowing in the water tank, and Li Chunxi scooped a spoonful of cool water onto the cauldron on the stove, and soon, the firewood stove crackled and ignited.

Li Chunxi boiled hot water for Luo Zhixin to drink, walked around the house again, checked the situation of the entire house, and then the three of them locked the door and left.

went to the car to pick up some gifts bought by Li Chunxi, and the sun was a little hot at noon, Li Chunxi put a hat on Luo Zhixin, he held people, and everything was carried by Chen Yu, all the way to Li Chunxi's relative's house.

At noon, Chen Yu and the three of them sat at a large round table.

The next day, I was going to have a 100-year-old banquet, and in the past two days, some people from the village have come back one after another. Li Chunxi's second uncle's relative has always been close to their family back then, so Li Chunxi is also taken care of every time he comes back.

Many people have left the countryside to develop outside, and the most promising among the juniors is naturally Li Chunxi.

During the banquet, the elders also praised him as usual, asked him about his recent situation, and asked Li Ran again. No one here knows what happened to Li Ran, everyone thinks that she is busy with her career outside, but they don't know that even Li Chunxi doesn't know her movements.

And when talking about Li Ran, in places that others can't see, there is always a lingering embarrassment between Li Chunxi and Chen Yu. Li Ran's topic was a taboo between them, except for one incidental time, which they didn't mention again.

After the relatives mentioned it, Li Chunxi took the topic elsewhere.

When he returned home in the afternoon, he waited for Luo Zhixin to take a nap, Chen Yu also lay down to sleep, Li Chunxi carried a bucket of water upstairs, opened the doors of each room, and carefully cleaned them up.

The beds upstairs were all skeletons left, and no one slept here for many years. Li Chunxi sat on the edge of the cleaned bed, remembering that when he was very young, he and Li Ran used to sleep and play here, running on the big platform outside, listening to the people downstairs walking and talking, and it was lively every summer.

Later, all the excitement was lost, and in the end, only he was left.

He kept moving forward, and so much happened to him that he gained a world and lost a world.

Outside the door, Li Chunxi was immersed in his own love, and he didn't hear the footsteps of someone going upstairs softly.

Until a shadow suddenly obscured the daylight, and stood at the door in the backlight, he didn't have time to collect the love on his face, suddenly looked up, and under the blurred halo, he heard the man with a little stunned: "You...... Crying? ”