"Grandma, I'm back!"

"Yo, Yan'er, what's the matter that makes you happy like this today, quick, go and drink that bowl of Chinese medicine, I see that your cough has improved a lot in the past few days, and it should be fine to drink a few more stickers."

"Well, okay, grandma, you go get busy, I'll do it myself."

"Okay."

He Yan put down his schoolbag, walked to the balcony, and saw Li Guoxiang smoking a cigarette there, Jia Xuan, who had never seen Li Guoxiang smoking, was surprised, it turned out that grandpa also smoked, He Yan walked behind Li Guoxiang, patted lightly, and whispered: "Grandpa, I'm back." Li Guoxiang hurriedly threw the cigarette on the ground, and said to He Yan with a smile: "I'm back, come, there's still a small box of ice cream in the refrigerator, remember not to eat too much, your cough is not well." He Yan looked at the few fragmented cigarette butts on the ground, looked at the complicated eyes in Li Guoxiang's eyes, and then looked at his tightly frowning brows, guessing in his heart that there must be something hidden from him. Fourteen years have passed, Li Guoxiang is really old, his body is no longer as strong as it was then, every time it is cold in winter, the spine hurts badly, and even once he can't get out of bed for a few days, but when it gets hot in summer, it gets a lot better, and occasionally it hurts, Jia Xuan looked at the originally tall back, but now he is a little shorter, and he feels a faint pain in his heart.

"Grandpa, there's a parent-teacher conference tomorrow." After dinner, Jia Xuan handed a parent notice to Li Guoxiang, Li Guoxiang took a magnifying glass to read the notice carefully, and saw the word "must", Li Guoxiang put down the magnifying glass, sat on the sofa and didn't speak, holding the pen but couldn't put down the pen, and then asked: "Yan'er, is this parent-teacher meeting really that important?" ”

"Grandpa, don't think too much, this parent-teacher meeting is very important, it is related to the class assignment, it is related to the high school entrance examination, so the teacher asked all parents to be present, grandpa, don't think too much, although you are old, but you are still my grandfather, my parents, I won't care about this." Li Guoxiang didn't go to several parent-teacher conferences in elementary school, and Jin Xiaofeng didn't go either, because she couldn't read, and Li Guoxiang didn't go because he was afraid of embarrassing He Yan. But Jia Xuan really didn't care too much, he never disliked him, his grandfather, no matter how old he was, was so tall.

"Well, okay, grandpa has such a sentence from you, then I will definitely be on time tomorrow." ......

In the afternoon of the next day, except for the second junior high school student, the rest of the students had left, and at this time the parents had also rushed to the school, and there was an old man in the crowd who was very conspicuous. He was wearing a sweat vest, crutches, a sunhat, hunched back, and staggered step by step in the campus, this old man was Li Guoxiang. The sun had set, but the residual heat of the day had not yet dissipated, it was very sultry, He Yan and Xue'er sat in the school garden talking and laughing.

"He Yan, your grandfather is here!" Feng Zi took a leap, jumped over the grass nearly a meter high, and then did a perfect somersault, appearing in front of the two with a smile that made people laugh.

"Really?" He Yan ran out of the garden overjoyed, this was the first time that his grandfather came to attend the parent-teacher conference.

"Hey! How handsome my performance just now, why don't you praise a few words? ”

"It's less smelly and beautiful, Feng Zi, you are stealing fun here alone, and I'm leaving."

He Yan walked in the middle of the campus, looking around, but he didn't see a figure, at this moment.

"Mom, look, isn't that the old man who comes to our community every day to pick up Coke bottles? What is he doing at school? Did you come to school to pick up a Coke bottle? A girl whispered to her mother.

This sentence happened to be heard by He Yan, who was standing on the side, He Yan looked at it, it was his grandfather, it was his grandfather, only Li Guoxiang was an old man in the group, and the girl was talking about her grandfather.

Li Guoxiang frowned and asked with a smile: "May I ask the teacher, how to go to the second (2) class of junior high school?" Li Guoxiang straightened his collar, and the sweat vest was covered by a faded blue T-shirt.

"Grandpa." At this time, He Yan had already rushed to his side, helped Jia Xuan, and with Jia Xuan's support, he walked to the second junior high school (class 2) classroom.

"How do you walk, do you have eyes?" He Yan helped Li Guoxiang to walk to the classroom step by step, walking in the crowded crowd, Li Guoxiang did not stand firm, and accidentally stepped on a man's shoes, the man turned his head and roared, He Yan apologized repeatedly, quickly passed through the crowd, and came to the door of the second junior high school (Class 2), the classroom was already full of people, but He Yan's position was still empty.

"I'm sorry, teacher, I'm late." Li Guoxiang looked at everyone with a surprised and strange expression, and then looked at the amiable smile of the teacher on the podium, his heart was full of apologies, he promised He Yan to come on time yesterday, but it seems that he was still late.

"Old man, be careful, be careful, come and sit down."

"Hey, this old man... Isn't it the old man who wanders around our neighborhood all day picking up Coke bottles? Could it be that his grandson is also studying here? ”

"Won't it?" The whispering of discussion from a corner of the classroom, those words pierced He Yan's eardrums like pins and needles, so it was. Jia Xuan understood, he understood everything at the moment, knew why Grandpa returned late that night, knew why the blood blisters under Grandpa's feet, knew why there was the sound of those empty bottles rubbing every night, knew why Grandpa's body suddenly became so weak, knew ......

On the podium, the voice of the head teacher, the voice of the parents below, and the voice of his own voice in his thoughts, He Yan recalled the scenes in the past seven years of school, and suddenly tears came out of his eyes, and at this moment, the head teacher said a word: "Next, let He Yan, who has scored first so far this semester, say a few words." Everyone's eyes focused on the inconspicuous, thin and small He Yan, but more people paid attention to the tears in his eyes. He Yan's sudden tears surprised the head teacher, surprised the parents, and shocked all the people present, He Yan took that step that had never been so heavy on the podium, first bowed respectfully to everyone, and then bowed to He Yan, turned around and bowed deeply to the head teacher, raised his head and looked at everyone with tears, and spoke.

"Hello everyone, my name is He Yan, I am 14 years old this year, and I am honored to stand on the podium to speak today. I would like to thank a few people here today for making me where I am today. The first is my grandfather and grandmother, I... I am an orphan, I have not seen my parents since I was born, and when I became sensible, I lived with my grandparents, but my grandparents were very good to me, I began to be sick since I was 1 year old, pretending to be pitiful in everyone's alley, praying for help, when I was 7 years old, I temporarily escaped from the palm of the disease, the most loved person in my life - grandpa, grandma, remember that I was seriously ill at that time, and urgently needed blood, but my blood type was very rare, and then grandpa appeared, it was he who donated precious blood to save my life, it was grandpa, My grandmother gave me a home, a warm home, they made me feel the warmth of the world, they gave me a complete childhood, they taught me the truth of being a man... For me... For me, they really gave a lot, because of the love they gave me in the past 14 years, today my grandma is not there, my grandpa is here, here I want to tell you that this is my grandpa. Jia Xuan looked at Liu Li Guoxiang with both eyes, but his cheeks were already soaked with tears, He Yan coughed lightly a few times, and then continued.

The second is my uncle, Uncle Chen Tong, it was he who gave me countless lives, when I was seriously ill, Uncle Chen was my attending doctor, he gave me the same love as my father, I still remember that scene, when I was seriously ill, when my ears were temporarily deaf, Uncle Chen burst into tears on the spot, I have always remembered the tears in my uncle's eyes, although he was not present today, but I still want to thank him, deeply grateful.

Finally, there are the teachers and classmates, who have been encouraging me. Especially Lu Xinxue, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, thank you for always helping me and teasing me, as well as Yuan Fengzi, and my dearest homeroom teacher......" He Yan couldn't speak anymore, he couldn't cry anymore, and the podium was already full of tears and hot tears in He Yan's eyes.

Everyone present wept silently, and Xue'er had already cried with red eyes. Li Guoxiang wanted to say something but couldn't speak, tears were rolling desperately in his eyes, he trembled his hands and wanted to support his body, the head teacher hurriedly stepped forward to support the greatest old man, and staggered to the podium.

"Think about your back, I feel the tenacity, touch your hands, I feel the hardship, and before I know it, your sideburns show gray hair...... "Grandpa, I love you....