The man didn't take Lin Xiao's apple, but sat down towards the empty seat next to Lin Xiao, and Lin Xiao only felt the fragrance.

"You don't know me anymore?" The man said and took off the cap on his head, revealing a smooth forehead and a beautiful face, Danfeng's eyes blinked and cast a light of joy, "I remember you, you are Lin Xiao!" ”

Lin Xiao looked at the other party's cheeks, and his heart was even more strange, and he smiled awkwardly, "I really don't remember!" ”

The girl sighed a little depressedly and said quietly, "Yes, how many years have it been." But when you said you were going to pee, I remembered it all at once! ”

"Huh?" Lin Xiao looked at the girl in surprise and depression, someone actually remembered the way she peed.

"In the past, your land and my house were next to each other, I went to deliver food to my dad, and you also went to deliver food to your dad, and your dad said to let you hoe the ground, and you would immediately say, I want to go to the toilet, no, I have to pee my pants ......" The girl learned Lin Xiao's tone, vividly, and said that she was happy, her eyes moved slightly, and she looked very nostalgic, "Haha, what else do you say that you can't defecate anywhere, you must go to the toilet at home, your father scolded you behind your back, and the stinky boy beat you to death!" ”

Lin Xiao chuckled in his heart, immediately remembered, and said in surprise, "You are Zhou Xiaoxiao?" ”

"You remember!" Zhou Xiaoxiao laughed, covered her lips with her white hand, calmed down, and looked Lin Xiao up and down, "What are you doing now?" ”

"I don't have anything to do." Lin Xiao can't say a job for himself, anyway, he is not interested in going to work now, but he was very happy to meet Zhou Xiaoxiao by chance, Zhou Xiaoxiao's father was a hero in the village at that time, his father was a highly educated person in the village at that time, a person who graduated from junior high school, it was at the peak of the country's economic development, his father was ruthless, sold all the things in the family, and even mortgaged the homestead to others, and took the money and took the family to the south, Since then, he has never heard of Zhou Xiaoxiao, but he heard from Zhou Xiaoxiao's uncles that Zhou Xiaoxiao's father has really made a fortune.

"Why did you come back to Ningchuan?"

Zhou Xiaoxiao smiled slightly, looked out the window, and stared sadly, "I want to come back and see, I just graduated from college, and I have nothing to do!" ”

Lin smiled "oh", he found that Zhou Xiaoxiao seemed reluctant to talk about it, so he took the initiative to talk to Zhou Xiaoxiao about what happened when he was a child, and many memories buried in his heart immediately recovered.

The more the two of them talked, the happier they became, and before they knew it, the car had arrived in their hometown of Xujiawan.

Walking on the path in the field, Zhou Xiaoxiao stretched out his hand and pointed in the distance, "Look where is my family's land, and it's also your family!" ”

Lin Xiao nodded, but now their family's land has been handed over to their neighbors to plant, with a rent of six hundred yuan a year, plus the income from his own part-time job, his life can barely be maintained, speaking of which, he suddenly felt sorry for his father, which was the land that his father had worked hard all his life.

When they arrived in the village, the two broke up, Zhou Xiaoxiao went to her second uncle's house, and Lin Xiao also walked towards his old house.

took out the key, pushed open the iron door, a stale breath came to his face, the jujube trees in the courtyard were also old, he still remembered that he used a bamboo pole to help Meng Yao knock dates to eat, the white porcelain on the wall also turned gray, and the ground was full of fallen leaves, Lin Xiao walked in, sat on the manhole cover of the old well, looked at everything in the courtyard, and was in a daze.

In the past, he and Meng Yao only came back during Meng Yao's winter and summer vacations, and after more than a month, the house that no one took care of seemed to age faster than people, Lin Xiao walked to the room, and the old furniture, dusty ground and cobwebs hanging on the wall made him feel sentimental, but fortunately, it was still early, Lin Xiao picked up the bucket and began to clean up.

After more than an hour of busyness, Lin Xiao finally made the whole home look new, he took out a reclining chair, sat outside, and shook leisurely, the sun was very good, very warm.

"Xiao'er, when did you come back?" Suddenly, an old woman appeared outside the door, dressed in gray clothes, and running in with her little feet wrapped in her hand, carrying a basket in her hand.

Lin Xiao opened his eyes and saw that it was the fourth grandmother next door, and he hurriedly stood up, "Fourth grandmother, why are you here?" ”

"I see you're here, my family Xiao'er works in the city, and I finally went home, and the fourth grandmother can't see it yet?" The fourth grandmother came to Lin Xiao's side as she spoke, and stretched out the basket to Lin Xiao's hand, "Eat the meal first, and then tell the fourth grandmother about your knowledge in the city!" ”

Lin Xiao was stunned, his heart was excited, he felt that life was too beautiful, he could always meet good people, this fourth grandmother took care of his mother day and night when he was sick, and now he is in his seventies, and his body is still healthy, for Lin Xiao, this person is the same as his own grandmother. He was not polite, took the basket and invited the fourth grandmother into the house.

When the fourth grandmother entered the door, she saw that the house had been cleaned, "Good boy, I love cleanliness like your father, yes, I will be able to find a good girl in the future!" ”

Lin Xiao blushed and smiled, as if the elders made him as shy as a blind date, eating the fourth grandmother's boiled noodles and a plate of side dishes, he felt that this was the best delicacy in the world.

"Where's Yao'er? Didn't she come back? The fourth grandmother asked.

"She's still in school, so she doesn't have time!" Lin Xiao said and drank another sip of hot soup, feeling refreshed.

The fourth grandmother sighed, and looked at Lin Xiao with dim eyes, "It's okay, it's normal for the relationship to be light, this child has been arrogant since he was a child, and he can't walk into the door anyway!" ”

As soon as Lin Xiao heard this, he felt strange in his heart, in the past, the fourth grandmother seemed to like Meng Yao more, why did she seem to have some opinions about Meng Yao now? smiled and said, "Is it that Meng Yao didn't come back to see you, and you are angry?" Isn't she going to take the college entrance examination? Time is of the essence! ”

The fourth grandmother snorted lightly, looked at the furnishings in the house, and said, "This house can still be used, you also have the strength, work for two years, don't spend the money randomly, and this will be a new house in the future!" ”

The more Lin Xiao listened, the more moved he became, there was still someone in his hometown who was in charge of his life, picked up a tissue and wiped his mouth, and said with a smile, "I'll bring my daughter-in-law back to you in two days!" Thinking of Qin Siyu, he couldn't help but smile.

"So you've found your daughter-in-law?" The fourth grandmother exclaimed in surprise and looked Lin Xiao up and down, "Does Meng Yao know about this?" She has no opinion? ”

Lin Xiao smiled bitterly, "What does this have to do with Meng Yao?" They've already met. ”

"Meng Yao, that kid didn't say anything?" The fourth grandmother looked straight at Lin Xiao as she spoke.

Lin Xiao thought that the fourth grandmother felt that she was poor, and Meng Yao was afraid that no one would pay for her tuition, so she hurriedly said, "I made some money, Meng Yao's tuition is fine, and they are still good friends!" Hang out together often! ”

"Really?" The fourth grandmother's expression became gloomy as she spoke, and she glanced at Lin Xiao, and then stopped dwelling on this matter, "You tell grandma, what do the people in the city look like?" ”

Lin Xiao also knew that the fourth grandmother had never been out of the village since she was a child, and the objects of marriage were all from the same village, and at that time life was very hard, and no one had spare money to play, so he told the fourth grandmother what he had seen and heard in the city, and talked about his own affairs at the construction site.

The fourth grandmother was happy to hear it and said directly, "The building is really so high!" I'm going to go to the city to see it sometime! ”

After a small talk, the time came in the afternoon, sent away the fourth grandmother, Lin Xiao went to the kitchen to look around, the rice and noodles left over from the last time he came back to eat were already rotten, looked at the sky, it was already dusk, he walked to the commissary, bought two bottles of spirits, and a pack of cigarettes, and walked towards the cemetery in the village.

Kneeling in front of his father's grave, Lin Xiao burst into tears, put two bottles of spirits on the table, lit a cigarette, and looked at the tombstone in a daze.

"Dad, Xiao'er is back!" Lin Xiao couldn't cry when he said it, and now he knows that his father's death is unclear, and he is even more ashamed, as a son of man, he can't even learn the truth about his father's death.

"This is your favorite old wine, and this is the red plum cigarette you smoke!" Lin Xiao couldn't help but tremble with his hands as he spoke, cheap crude wine, and red plum cigarettes for two yuan, which were his father's favorites. He felt even more sad when he thought that his life had changed when he got the Eye of Heaven, but his father couldn't see all this.

In the dark, it seems that there really is a providence.

"Mom, you've worked hard for your father's affairs...... This matter is left to Xiao'er to do, no matter who it is, I will let him break his bones and ashes! Lin Xiao pounded the ground with his hands and lay on his mother's grave to bury his head and cry.

The night was deep, the cemetery was even more terrifying, and the faint moonlight shone on the young man lying on the ground in pain through a long time, clear and lonely, the breeze was gentle, and the insects chirped, as if the world was so calm again.

I don't know how long the tears were, all the nineteen cigarettes burned out, and the last one Lin Xiao took a sharp breath in his mouth, this was the first time he smoked, choked and coughed, two bottles of spirits were spilled on the ground, the wine was fragrant, he sat in place, thinking about his father's affairs.

In Xujiawan, their Lin family is not a big family, only their family, his father is also the only son in the family, and there are no uncles and brothers, grandparents died early, and his father was a soldier outside for many years, until he was physically injured later, he was discharged from the army and went home, and married his mother in his thirties, which is his own.

He was not familiar with his father's past, but his father always looked nostalgic when he occasionally talked about the army.

While thinking, he walked towards his home, and while the commissary was still closed, he bought a few more packets of instant noodles and mineral water, and then returned home.

Walking into the corridor, in the darkness he saw Zhou Xiaoxiao sitting there at the door of his house, he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and immediately walked over.

"Why are you here?"

Zhou Xiaoxiao heard a tremor in Lin Xiao's voice, turned on the flashlight strangely, and shone it towards Lin Xiao's face, seeing that Lin Xiao's eyes were red and swollen, obviously crying, she was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Let's talk to you, I've been waiting for you for a long time, what are you doing!" ”

"I went to my dad's grave and took a look!" Lin Xiao choked up again as he spoke, and reached out to open the door to let Zhou Xiaoxiao in.

Zhou Xiaoxiao returned to the second uncle's house, there were only the second uncle and other old people in the house, and several cousins of the same age had gone out to work, or one or two children who were still in infancy, she was bored at home, so she could only chat with the second uncle, but after all, there was a generation gap, and she was not happy, and when she asked about the things in the village, she also knew that Lin Xiao's father died in a car accident, looking at Lin Xiao's appearance, she said softly, "The festival mourns and changes, don't think about it after so long!" ”

Lin Xiao subconsciously raised his head and looked at Zhou Xiaoxiao coldly, he was already fierce in his heart, and said loudly, "How can it pass?" No matter how long it has been, I'm going to ......"

Zhou Xiaoxiao was also startled, her cold eyes scared her, and she didn't understand why Lin Xiao was angry with herself, so she just took a step back.

"I ......" Lin Xiao shook his head, took a deep breath, and said softly, "I'm sorry, I'm really sad now, you go back first!" ”

"Oh, Xiao'er, you're finally back!" At this time, the fourth grandmother at the door walked in with a meal, and was stunned when she saw Zhou Xiaoxiao, this fashionably dressed girl didn't look like a person in the village, and said with a smile, "Xiao'er, this is your girlfriend!" And ran back from the city to chase you! That's great! ”