But later it was rumored that Li Xiaomo had a girlfriend, surnamed Huo Shan.

I knew it must be a rumor, my brother and the girl named Huo Shan didn't call at all. But I didn't poke this layer in front of my aunt and uncle, because they seemed to be at ease, and it seemed that the fact that my son had a girlfriend showed that he was still a boy who intended to follow the normal path.

I later made fun of my brother about it and asked him when he was going to take Shanshan to see his aunt and uncle.

"See what? I've seen the big one since I was a child, but I don't know it? He rolled his eyes.

"Oh, when is that decided?" I asked, "After Shanshan graduates?" ”

"Sister, what are you thinking? How can I get together with that 'brainless' Murong Xuan Chapter 3. He continued to roll his eyes, "That's fooling." ”

"Fooling people? Who? "I'm confused," your female fan group, huh? ”

My brother didn't seem to want to answer my question, and after a while, he said, "I can't do it, I can't honestly find a girlfriend to settle down and start a business." But...... My parents didn't like me like this and always talked about me. ”

It was only here that I really understood what my brother meant.

Later, Huo Shan told me that her brother had an "old soul", which she said was so old that such a young body could hardly support it.

"He's tired, he's tired." Huo Shan said thoughtfully, "Although everyone is very tired, Xuanxuan, you see, the way the four of us deal with this is very different. ”

I didn't speak, I thought of the group of boys who pursued Shanshan but never got the following, just like Xiaomo, Shanshan seemed to have made up her mind early and not to follow the path of ordinary people.

"Well, I'm not caring about it, when it doesn't exist as an ostrich; Xiaomo's guy was bold, he directly picked it up and refused to let it go; What about you, and Murong Xuan who is outside it Chapter 3 is separated by three meters, and your energy is used on it, so you can't do anything else. After she finished speaking, she grinned again, "As for my brother." That one has to fight it, super matador, fight to the death. ”

What exactly that "it" is, Huo Shan didn't explain, but I know that kind of thing. When I was four years old, I was tortured by "it" for more than half a year, and then I learned how to get along with it, as Shanshan said, I must keep a distance of three meters from it, otherwise it will be ruined.

But in the words of my brother, if we don't face it, it will have to come back sooner or later.

"It's our god of fate, sister, and you can't escape it." His expression seemed to be in deep thought, "If you don't accept your destiny god, it will become the greatest demon and even bring death on your behalf." ”

When I told my dad what I said, he was amazed and wondered how my brother had come up with it, "My stupid sister doesn't have the brain," said him, "and it must be his father's problem." ”

"But doesn't my uncle look good?" I said, "Why doesn't Xiaomo look like him at all?" ”

"It's because he looks 'too good and normal' on the outside. That's why the son will go in the opposite direction to find a replacement for him. ”

As an adult, I understood what my dad meant.

The Huo Shan, who "fooled people" with her younger brother, is also my best friend since I was a child, and she also has an older brother named Xin Xuanran, guess what their father's surname is?

I guess you can't guess that their father is neither surnamed Xin nor Huo, his surname is Wei.

There are four surnames in this family, but since my family also has one surname per person, I won't say that people are weird. The Wei family (let me refer to them as such) have a good relationship with my family, I call Huo Shan's mother Aunt Lin, she is a good friend of my mother, and Aunt Lin's husband used to be my mother's colleague, a scientist who studies physics.

Their son, Xin, is a year older than me. My daughter Huo Shan is three years younger than me and the same age as Xiaomo.

Our four children have been playing together since childhood, and we are "childhood sweethearts" in the true sense of the word, and we will always be together on weekends. Although as an adult, I almost had no contact with Ran.

I remember my dad saying that the sound of three children downstairs shouting for me to come down and play was "compared to the screams of a fire truck", and when they went crazy and ran home to loot the food in the refrigerator. "Compared with the pirate returning to the camp".

Huo Shan's brother Xin Ran is a naturally old boy, although he is only a year older than me, but he seems to be much older than me, when the four children play together, he will always consciously assume the responsibility of being a parent, maintain the balance of the relationship between the four people, beware of his sister and Xiaomo fighting, and will also let me play when playing.

My dad said that he was "old from the beginning", and like his surname, he was born with a hard life, and he always stretched a string, lest the world be in chaos.

Later, I learned that Xin Ran was the child born to Aunt Lin and others, and Uncle Wei was just Huo Shan's biological father, and he was not related to Ran.

Speaking of Uncle Wei......

He is the second real genius scientist I know, the first is Director Liang, but that weird talent is too eccentric, so I decided not to treat Director Liang as a typical "scientist", otherwise the Chinese Academy of Sciences will become Disney's "mystery hole".

Compared to Director Liang, Uncle Wei is much more normal and easier to approach, of course, I am not saying that Director Liang is difficult to approach, but I suggest that you should not get too close to him, many people rushed to him because they thought he was "fun" enough at the beginning, but in the end, they were all made by him with two heads, and regretted it.

Uncle Wei is a super smart guy, I mean, he's the kind of real genius who reads more than 10,000 words per minute, has a camera-strong instantaneous memory and has two PhDs before he was 30...... Dad also said it was because he started too late. But I wasn't impressed by any of this, I personally remembered it. He was able to beat me through a single-player game in 20 minutes, which I hadn't done for a year — and of course he apologized to me later, because I ended up crying because I never felt so stupid.

I was seven years old.

But my father later said that I didn't need to cry at all, because if all the people who lost to Uncle Wei had to cry like I did, Uncle Wei's living room would have become a swimming pool long ago. "It's a very fair thing to do. His genius didn't come out of nowhere, and you can't know how much hard work Wei Bin's brain synapses have done. My dad said, "That's probably a huge amount that we can't imagine for ordinary people." ”

But as long as he doesn't play against Uncle Wei, then he's a good guy, and he likes to play with us kids, even though none of us like to play with him - who wants to play with someone who is destined to lose to him?

This made Uncle Wei very depressed. I often suspect that he has an eye and can see the cards in our hand through the back of our cards, but he says he doesn't have any eyes and that he comes to his conclusions solely through calculations.

Given that I scored zero in math as a child, I don't want to explore whether what he said was true or false.

At the very least, he wouldn't be like Director Liang, who triumphantly found evidence of cheating, embarrassed us, and then collectively agreed that no matter how many snacks he took out to bribe us in the future, he would never play cards with him.

If a few of us cheated playing cards, Uncle Wei would just laugh it off.

Mom said that Uncle Wei was at least a little more mature than Director Liang.

Originally, I always felt that Uncle Wei was a very happy person, he had a good family and a job he liked, and he had a strong ability to solve all problems. Except for the fact that he can't fix household appliances, he shouldn't have any worries and worries.

But then something happened that made me doubt this perception a little.

In the summer vacation when I was eight years old, my two families went on a trip together, and we went to the Yunnan border, with a total of four adults and three children. The scenery was very beautiful, and Dad took lots and lots of photos along the way.

In the last two days, we went to Lijiang, and there is a tourist project called "Re-walking the Ancient Tea Horse Road", that is, riding a horse, along the ancient tea horse road that existed in the Tang and Song dynasties, until the beach in Lashi is reached.

It was my first time riding a horse, and when I got to the racecourse, we kids all screamed and shouted for riding. So the adults discussed it and rented a horse for each of them, including five-year-old Huo Shan, who also got a chestnut stallion.

We rented a total of five horses, two adults and three children, and each horse was led by a jockey, because they were still children, so the jockeys did not dare to let their guard down.

But strangely enough, the two fathers refused to ride horses.

Shanshan waved to her father on the horse, but Uncle Wei only shook his head.

Aunt Lin said that the two of them didn't want to ride horses, so let's play with our mothers.

I was picked up by my father, and my mother asked me if I was afraid, although I was a little nervous, I still shook my head and said I was not afraid. Dad laughed. He said that of course, how could the Tartar's daughter be afraid of riding, and the mother laughed too.

…… Tartar?

At that time, I didn't understand the meaning of these two words, but I felt that there was a bit of pride hidden in my father's smile.

So we set off.

Actually, the feeling of riding a horse is completely different from what I saw on TV, I didn't expect it to be so bumpy, although the horse was very docile, once it started, I was still out of breath, like the naughty boy in the class holding on to the skeleton rack in the biology room and shaking it vigorously, I felt like the bones in my body were like that. This makes me feel that the ancients were really hard, people who fought on horseback. This up-and-down jolt alone is enough.

However, the jockeys still took good care of our group of children, and did not dare to let the horses go, because Shanshan was only five years old, so young, and the adults were afraid that she would have an accident, and insisted that she hold on to the reins.

"Why doesn't Dad ride a horse?" Shanshan asked her mother on horseback.

Aunt Lin didn't answer, but the jockey in front of her laughed.

"Little sister, your father is not used to riding a horse, and a city man like him will be turned upside down by a horse."

Huo Shan heard the contempt in the jockey's words. She was a little unhappy and pouted: "Not really!" My dad is amazing! ”

"He's great in the office, and he's making great money!" The Naxi boy said. "Your dad is so neatly dressed, and he wears glasses, and he looks so white...... He is different from those of us who were born on horseback! ”

At that time, Uncle Wei was already a little short-sighted. So he wears a pair of glasses.

Before Huo Shan could speak, my mother spoke: "Young man, don't underestimate people, otherwise you will regret it." ”

Mom's words sounded like a joke. She said these words with a smile, too, but the jockey heard the displeasure in it, and he said no more.

But it didn't take long for me to hear Aunt Lin's low voice: "Su Hong, the two of them ...... You okay? ”

Mom looked back at Aunt Lin, and she smiled, "What will happen?" Don't worry, my Tartar is with him. ”

Tartar is probably talking about my father.

It took two hours to ride, and when we returned to the racecourse, I saw my father and Uncle Wei standing there waiting for us.

"How?" Dad picked me up and asked me with a grin.

"It's fun!" I'm excited, "It's bumpy, though." But the horse is so well-behaved! I love horseback riding! ”

"Of course." Dad snorted. "People in our family are born to ride horses."

Well, I don't really understand Dad's words.

However, just as I was dismounting to take a break to drink water, I stumbled upon a cigarette butt thrown at the place where my father and Uncle Wei were standing just now.

There was still green smoke on the cigarette butt, which looked like someone had just smoked it.

My heart is pounding!

Ever since I was a child, I knew that although my dad didn't smoke much, he couldn't help but have one when he was in a bad mood. So every time I see my dad smoking. I would be nervous and think something really bad was happening......

I stared at the cigarette butt for a moment, then ran to my dad, grabbed his hand and sniffed it.

Strange, no smell of smoke.

"Why?" Dad looked at me curiously.

I looked up and asked him, "Dad, did Uncle Wei smoke just now?" ”

Dad was stunned: "Huh? …… Oh, hmm. ”

He replied vaguely, as if he didn't want to talk to me about it. I thought about it and decided that it would be better not to ask.

Uncle Wei is probably not a smoker, I have never seen him smoke.

Then I saw Uncle Wei walking up to the jockey. Seems to be talking to him about something. I didn't hear what Uncle Wei was saying, but I saw the jockey shake his head vigorously.

"No, no, no! That's impossible! He said, "Sir, this is not a joke, and we cannot say yes." ”

"What are you doing?" I asked Dad.

"Oh, I want to rent a horse." Dad smiled, "Let's see if we can negotiate." ”

Renting a horse? Why didn't you rent it just now? Why don't you just go horseback riding with us?

“…… That's too dangerous, sir. The jockey said, "An hour or two is fine, and it must be led by us." You say you want to rent a day and don't let us follow, so what? ”

I ran over and followed Uncle Wei. Look up at them.

"Shall we give us more money?" Uncle Wei continued, "Two people, two horses, give us a day, well, it's not a day now, it's noon, give us half a day, come back at seven o'clock in the afternoon, and it won't be ......dark at that time."

"But what if something happens to you halfway? What if you fall off your horse! The jockey still refused, "If something happens to the tourist, we, the owners of the horses, will also be held legally responsible!" I can't compensate you for a shirt after earning a month! ”

"Alas, I can't have fallen off my horse......"

"How can that be said accurately? You city dwellers didn't grow up riding horses! ”

Then, I saw Uncle Wei smile bitterly: "How do you know that I didn't grow up riding a horse?" ”

The jockey stared at him suspiciously: "You grew up riding horses?" Don't lie! Sir, you're still wearing glasses! ”

When Uncle Wei heard this, he sighed, he looked at the sky, and then stretched out his hand, took off his glasses and stuffed them into his jacket pocket: "Now I don't wear glasses, is it okay?" ”

I laughed out loud next to me!

"Absolutely not! We don't want to be responsible! ”

The jockey was still muttering, but Dad walked over. He patted him on the shoulder and said, "Young man, let him ride on it first, okay?" After you've seen it and made a rational judgment, let's talk about the details of renting a horse. ”

My dad is a man who has a knack for convincing others, and he speaks so sincerely. It's not good for the other party to insist on their opinions anymore.

So Uncle Wei walked among the horses. Looking left and right, he finally pulled out a tall black horse.

When the jockey saw the horse, he shook his head!

"This one? No, no, no! This horse is too strong. I even threw our jockey down last time! Even a jockey can't control it, and you're sure you'll ...... if you change your husband."

But before he could finish his words, he saw Uncle Wei flying on his horse and sitting firmly on the saddle.

As soon as the horse felt someone coming up, two front hooves jumped high! It hissed and screamed violently, shaking its body like a ship as if it were about to get angry!

I was a little scared and quickly hid behind my dad.

"It's fine." Dad laughed, "This horse is no match for your Uncle Wei. ”

His words were not wrong, and despite the horse's best efforts, Uncle Wei never fell, and he lived like his whole body in the saddle!

Then, when the horse had enough tossing and wheezing, he saw him gently twitch the horse's neck with the reins, and it actually opened its hooves. Striding forward......

Under everyone's attention, the black steed carried Uncle Wei and ran around the horse farm. When it returned to the jockeys again, it became honest and obedient and motionless!

"Is that okay?" Dad glanced at the jockey, his mouth slightly open, and he glared. I seem to have seen some amazing scene!

“…… Well, if that's the case, then ......," he paused, "then pick two horses." ”

"I'm going to ask for this." Uncle Wei said as he said on the horse, and he patted the horse's neck gently. "It's not as good as mine, but let's make do with it."

His horse? ……

Dad picked a white one, and the two of them rode around the horse farm, and soon ran out of the horse and disappeared without a trace......

The rest of the group of people stared at the invisible figure in the dust, and no one spoke for a while.

"Eldest sister, your husband has really ridden horses since he was a child, right?" The Naxi jockey turned his head to look at Aunt Lin, he was a little embarrassed, "I've never seen someone riding a horse for the first time to be able to have this level." ”

Aunt Lin still smiled bitterly, but didn't say anything.

At half past seven, Dad and Uncle Wei returned to the inn.

As they entered, I heard Uncle Wei say, "...... The Dian horses are too small, and you used to use tall horses, forcing us to look around, and if the height is not enough, we will suffer as soon as the war on the plains begins. ”

Who do you mean? Who are "we"? The Chinese Academy of Sciences is still in charge of raising horses......

His words made me curious, and I think Uncle Wei knows a lot, and he deserves to be a scientist.

Of course, I later realized that not all scientists understand this.

After dinner, my parents went to visit the old town of Lijiang, and I said that I would not go, and I would play checkers with Ran. Yesterday he won me twice and today I want to win it back.

That night, I was playing checkers with Suddenly. Aunt Lin was packing her luggage, and we will go back tomorrow. Uncle Wei was beside him, whispering something with his wife, while hugging Shanshan and coaxing her to sleep. At that time, although Shanshan was five years old, Uncle Wei always treasured her like a baby doll.

During this period, Aunt Lin's words came into my ears: "...... Otherwise, let's buy one, shall we? ”

Buy a horse? What the? Horses?

Does Uncle Wei like horses very much? How did I not know before?

I looked up and glanced at Uncle Wei inexplicably. But he was laughing: "What do you say, buy one?" Where are we going to raise it? The strata company will go crazy. ”

Aunt Lin's expression seemed a little sad, but she didn't say anything more.

Then, after a long silence, I heard Uncle Wei's voice.

“…… I'd given up on those a long time ago, Lin Lan. It is impossible for man to retain everything from the past. ”

Aunt Lin didn't say anything more, but I think her expression looked even more sad.

I won that day, and suddenly I didn't seem to be playing chess very seriously.

When I got back, I told my dad what I had heard. I said, is Uncle Wei really riding horses since he was a child? Where did he learn to ride a horse? Was horse riding taught in the previous elementary school?

Dad didn't answer my questions directly, he just said that it was too complicated, and that I would grow up later. can tell me slowly.

I thought about it and asked my father again, but why did Aunt Lin look so sad.

Dad said that she wanted to keep what was impossible to keep, and then Dad also said that a person's life is a process of constantly giving up other things in pursuit of what he wants most.

Dad was a little melancholy when he said this, and I didn't even know if he was so melancholy because of Uncle Wei or because of himself.

…… However, it wasn't until many years later that I suddenly realized what Uncle Wei had given up.

When I realized this, I couldn't help but feel sad.

It's a kind of renunciation that any Chinese who loves history will feel sad. !!