When I got up at six o'clock on Saturday morning, Lao Ma saw that Zai Zai was still sleeping, and there was no movement at home, so the timing was just right. He quietly opened his suitcase, took out something wrapped in plaid cloth from the bottom of the box, and opened the plaid cloth, which turned out to be a pair of old cloth shoes - which Gui Ying's mother made for him before her death, and he kept it. After taking out the cloth shoes, he broke the upper of the shoe and took out a thick pile of 100 yuan bills from the shoes.

The old horse held the wad of money in his left hand, licked the spit with the thumb of his right hand, and then counted it. Counting thirty times, he pondered for a moment, not enough, and then counted; He paused, pondered for five or six minutes, and then counted; He stopped again, shook his head and sighed a few times, held the dividing line of the pile of money with the middle finger of his left hand, touched the tears in the corner of his eyes with the ring finger of his right hand, and then counted...... After counting, pull it out, stuff the rest of the money into the upper of the shoe, wrap the shoe in plaid cloth, place it at the bottom of the suitcase, and close the box.

This is the money he brought to Big Brother, and it doesn't look good to hold it so nakedly, and he gets an envelope. When Zhiyuan got up, he asked for an envelope, stuffed the money neatly into the envelope, and then placed the envelope in the drawer of the bedside cabinet. At half past seven, the old horse came out to wash, and when he brushed his teeth, he saw that his beard had grown, and he was ready to shave. He lathered his face with soap and fetched his razor to shave.

"Grandpa, what are you doing?" Yang Yang held a rag doll and looked up and asked the old horse.

"I'm going to shave." The old horse gestured with a razor.

"Why do you want to shave?"

"How can there be so many why?" The old horse bent down and faced Yangyang and said, "Come, you touch!" ”

"Sizzle...... Yes! What a Zaza! ”

"That's right! Because it prick your hand, you have to scrape it off! ”

"Doesn't it hurt then?"

"It's old, I don't know it hurts!"

"Why are you old...... I don't know it hurts? ”

"Uh...... Because...... The most painful pain is numbness! Oh, I don't think you understand, you go get a hookah for grandpa! ”

"Okay, then you wait for me here! I want to see you shave! ”

"Haven't you ever seen anyone shaving?" The old horse turned and looked down at Yang Yang in surprise.

"No! My mom didn't, my dad didn't, and neither did my brother! ”

"Oh, so pitiful! Your family...... Incomplete! Grandpa will give you a shave now, you take a closer look! The old horse bent over the waves, shaving with a razor in his right hand and a piece of paper in his left hand.

"You touch it now!"

"Hee-hee-hee...... It's smooth, it's still soft, it's like bread! ”

"Hey, hey, hey...... Bread! Grandpa is not bread, but sweet potato chips that are dried in the winter - dry and meatless! The old horse washed his face after shaving, and the curious Yangyang kept watching.

After washing his face, he went to change his clothes—the new belt of long-sleeved trousers again. The long shirt was tucked into the belt, and the sleeves of the shirt were neatly rolled up to the elbows. The plaster cast also covers his right leg with loose boss pants, and his left foot is wearing brand new black socks, and the sock jacket is wearing brand new black leather shoes.

Then the old horse took out the envelope and put it in his right trouser pocket, and the cowhide money was packed into his left trouser pocket, straightened his white hair, put on his old watch, and came out with his mobile phone, peaked cap, crutches, and hookah. He sat in a rocking chair, waited for Zhiyuan to finish packing, and set off to the hospital together.

"Hey, Dad, aren't you dressed like this?"

"Tsk, leave me alone!" Lao Ma waved his hand, he has always worn this for decades when he has seen important people, he was clearly asking for himself according to the appearance of the city, why was he still disliked when he arrived in the city.

"Hey, hey, okay! What do we take with us to the hospital? Is one fruit basket enough? ”

"Uh...... Let's buy something else! ”

"Then I'll go down and pick it up at the supermarket downstairs!"

"Done!"

Zhiyuan turned around to wash and change clothes, and woke up Tsai Tsai after he was done.

"Zaizai, are you taking care of your sister at home today? My grandfather and I went to the hospital to see another grandfather. ”

"I'm going to have a final exam! I can't discipline her if she is disobedient, tsk...... You take her away! I really...... There's a lot of homework! Before the exam, I relied on this weekend to make a surprise attack! Tsai Tsai was reluctant to sit on the bed.

"Ah...... Okay, you can rest, we will leave directly later, and you can eat lunch by yourself. Zhiyuan closed the door and came out of the house, and said to Lao Ma: "Dad, do you want to take Yangyang today?" I can't take care of it! When you get to the hospital, you go and talk to your uncle, and I will be outside with Yangyang! ”

"Cheng, bring my little tanhua! Hehe......" The old horse shook his fan and turned his head to look at Yang Yang, who was sitting on the floor of the living room playing with toys.

Zhiyuan changed Yangyang into a good-looking red princess dress, Yangyang took the initiative to put on her pink sunhat, and Lao Ma put on his retro peaked cap, and the three of them set off like this. Go downstairs for breakfast first, then go to the supermarket to buy fruit baskets and supplements. Lao Ma casually asked how much the fruit basket Zhiyuan bought, and Zhiyuan returned more than 400.

"How much?" The old horse suspected that he had misheard.

"Four hundred and thirty-seven dollars!"

"Such bananas, apples, plums – so expensive!" The old horse raised his voice and shouted.

"There is also a fruit basket for nutritional products, this fruit basket is dozens of pounds! That's it for now! ”

"I don't believe it! Which supermarket did you buy it from? I'm going to take a look at my feet! ”

"Let's go downstairs, the price is not expensive!"

"I don't believe it!" The old horse seemed to have been struck by the city's high prices and shocked, his eyes were white, and a few horizontal grooves appeared on his forehead. Along the way, he always refused to accept the fact that the fruits of the countryside for dozens of yuan were sold for hundreds of yuan in the city.

After arriving at the hospital, it was already more than nine o'clock, and there was still a long way from the hospital gate to the ward. Zhiyuan carried the nutrition on his back, held the fruit basket in one hand and fanned the old horse in the other, playing with toys and not knowing where he was. In between resting by the flower bed in the hospital, Lao Ma asked Zhiyuan to turn off his mobile phone, he didn't want anyone to disturb his conversation with Big Brother. At nine-forty, the old horse finally limped to the big brother's ward.

There were a total of six patients in the narrow ward, Zhiyuan looked at the old horse one by one, and saw that on the bed in the middle, there was a person with a dark face, messy hair, and a thin quilt, and the thin quilt revealed a skinny body, the old horse looked like it and didn't look like it, stood on the side of the bed and glanced at it a few times, walked up to the man and shouted: "Brother Tie Sheng, Brother Tie Sheng!" ”

As soon as the man heard someone call him in his hometown, he slowly opened his eyes, startled, and then raised his arm and shook at the old horse: "Jianguo, you are here!" Yuan Tiesheng wanted to sit up but had no strength, Zhiyuan hurriedly stepped forward and took a hand, turned around and helped the old horse to sit on the edge of the bed, after greeting the old man, put down the fruit basket and nutritional products, and pulled Yangyang to the corridor outside the ward to wait.

"Brother Yuan is good!" When the old horse saw his eldest brother, he was excited for a long time and did not speak.

"Good! What's wrong with your legs and feet! Seventy-six-year-old Yuan Tiesheng pointed to the old horse's feet and asked softly.

"Hey, if it weren't for this, I would have come to see you earlier!" The old horse patted Yuan Tiesheng's thin arm, which was as thin as a boy. When I saw him for the last time in the office of the town government nine years ago, he was a general, with thick hair combed back, a red face, a pair of round eyes that were bright, and he walked with vigor and vigor, and spoke loudly and powerfully...... Now that he is so thin, he can easily pick him up with both hands, and the old horse doesn't know how to speak for a while.

"That's your son-in-law?" Tie Sheng pointed to Zhiyuan outside the window.

"Well, my son-in-law and my granddaughter."

"It's better to have a daughter!" Tie Sheng patted the old horse's thigh and said. Who would have thought that this sentence was heard by a woman walking behind the old horse, the man snorted, turned his head and left! Before leaving, he looked at the old horse from top to bottom, and there was a cold look in his eyes.

The old horse asked, "That's ......?"

"Build his daughter-in-law's ......"

The two were silent for a moment.

"Will Jiancheng come to accompany you every night?"

"What are you going to do...... He's busy! On weekends, they stay for a day or two during the day, and they don't usually come, so they work overtime or something...... I didn't go home until 9 p.m.! The old man's face was melancholy, and he was still thinking about hiding his melancholy.

"This daughter-in-law is good, it's good to be able to bring me a meal and water!" Tiesheng added.

The old horse nodded.

"It's been many years, and you're still the same as before, energetic!" Tie Sheng smiled.

The old horse also smiled lightly, and then asked him, "Why have you lost so much weight?" ”

"Hey...... As soon as I arrived in Shenzhen, I was diagnosed with heart disease, and I spent a lot of money on hospitalization and surgery over the years, but my illness was not cured! I'll tell you...... I've had enough to live......" Tie Sheng patted the back of the old horse's hand in frustration, and the tone was so weak that only the two of them could hear it.

The old horse understood him and nodded. At this moment, Ma Jianguo was so heavy that he couldn't even sigh.

Tie Sheng continued: "Jianguo, my life is not as good as your life...... You have a good son-in-law! The boy looked at him—he was a good man! ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" The old horse looked at Zhiyuan and nodded.

"How many days are you going to be in Shenzhen?"

"When your feet are ready, let's go!"

"Don't retire here, the city is not as good as the countryside! I want to go back to death...... My son won't let me go back, so I'm better off waiting here than dead...... It's not interesting, it's not interesting! Tie Sheng waved his hand, tears streaming from the corners of his eyes onto the white pillow of the hospital.

"I know, I know! He is filial to you! The old horse comforted Tie Sheng, who shook his head and grinned without speaking.

"Good life! You have sons and daughters, and your sons are filial! ”

"Those who are filial or not have to go! Who knows what the situation will be, maybe I'm not as good as you! You can still live here, and your son is willing to spend money on you...... Yes, let's think about the better! ”

"I want to go home, but they won't let me ......," Tie Sheng whispered, and after saying that, he burst into tears for a long time.

A few minutes later, Tie Sheng spoke: "I want to be buried in my hometown, they want to cremate me ......" At this point, the old man could no longer hold back and whimpered sideways towards the old horse. The old horse patted Tie Sheng's shoulder, and the breath in his nostrils was uneven. The entire large ward was silent, except for the sound of Tie Sheng sobbing.

Zhiyuan sat on the chair outside looking at his phone, unprepared for Yangyang sneaking in. Seeing this scene, the villain stared at the side with round eyes and covered his chin. After a while, both old men calmed down. Tie Sheng wiped away his tears and pointed at Yangyang and said, "This is your granddaughter?" ”

"Yes! Bao'er come over and call grandpa! The old horse used his left hand to push her from Yangyang's cervical vertebrae to Tie Sheng.

"Hello grandpa!" Yang Yang whispered. She must have been frightened by the appearance of her old age, and she couldn't help leaning back slightly, and the old horse pushed her forward vigorously. The child is the enemy of aging, the antidote to death, and he knows that a rippling sweet smile can bring some happiness to the dying big brother.

"Hello!" Tie Sheng lay on the bed and smiled and beckoned.

"You tell this grandpa how old you are?" The old horse was still pushing Yangyang, and Yangyang and Tiesheng were only half a meter away. Two people who speak lightly should not be too far apart.

"I'm four and a half years old!" Yang Yang stared at Tie Sheng's deep-set eyes and mouth, a little puzzled, and a little charming.

"Did you put on a show in the kindergarten yesterday?" The old horse saw that Yangyang had been singing the song of the graduation performance since yesterday's release until today.

"Yes, I did a dance!"

"Then will you dance again for this grandfather today?"

"Uh...... This is not good......" Yangyang looked at the old horse with an unhappy and scared expression.

"You hurry up and jump, after the jump, grandpa will give you money! Same as last time! Lao Ma said in Yangyang's ear, who knew that this whisper was heard by the old man in the clinic, and Tie Sheng couldn't help but laugh when he opened his black mouth.

"Uh, well! So where do I jump? Yang Yang said, looking around the narrow aisle.

"Here it is! Between these two beds! ”

"Okay, then I'm going to go!"

After speaking, Yangyang sang and danced: "Little rabbit obediently, open the door, if you don't open it, you won't open it, I won't open it, if your mother doesn't come back, no one will open it." Little rabbit, open the door, open it, I'll open it, mom is back, I'll open the door......"

Children are ignorant, and they will kneel on the ground and make movements, and they will circle around the bedside...... The immature children's voice hovered in the ward like a natural sound, and the red flowing little gauze skirt instantly attracted all the dry hearts like a warm sunset. After this dance, the whole hospital bed resounded with enthusiastic but sparse applause. The grandfather and grandson turned their heads to see that the other patients also sat up to watch her dance. Zhiyuan also came to the door of the ward to watch the excitement.

"Laibao'er, you sing a nursery rhyme to these grandfathers here!" The old horse pushed Yangyang to the center of the ward.

Yang Yang twisted for a while, walked over and quietly asked Lao Ma: "Grandpa, do you give money for this?" ”

When the old horse heard this, he laughed, and only nodded and said, "Give it!" Give give, give! ”

Yangyang smiled when he heard the money, walked to the open space in the middle of the ward, and sang the children's rhyme taught by the school one by one: "A grandfather whose surname is Gu, goes to the street to make vinegar and buy cloth." I bought a cloth, beat the vinegar, and looked back to see the eagle catching the rabbit. Put down the cloth, put down the vinegar, and go after the eagle and the rabbit. Flew the eagle, ran away from the rabbit, knocked over the vinegar, vinegar wet cloth. The festive children's voice broke the long-standing dryness of the ward, like an open bun, and the ward was instantly filled with the image of steaming joy in the world.

Yang Yang finished singing and stopped. The sixty or seventy-year-old men on the hospital bed clapped their hands and cheered, and the little girl was flattered.

"Sing one more!" The old horse pointed at her with his cane.

"Sing what?" The rippling brain is blank.

"Sing that 'good weather today'......" Zhiyuan said on the side.

"Today's weather is good, let's go on a spring outing, the white clouds are long, the sun is soft, the green mountains and green waters, and the flowers are splendid! Today's weather is good, let's go on a spring outing, the white clouds are long, the sun is soft, the green mountains and green waters, and the flowers are splendid! "The children are swinging their little heads left and right, and the red skirts and watermelon hats are beautiful and beautiful, and the old people are fascinated by it.

"Let's have a 'call in spring'......" Zhiyuan prompted.

"Spring is calling: the spring thunder is rumbling, waking up the rabbit to graze, the frog to swim, and the rooster to catch the worm! Spring is coming: the grass is greening, the willows are sprouting, the spring flowers are blooming, and the swallows are flying! Yang Yang sang while reflexively doing the movements taught by the teacher - it was cute, and the old people admired the innocence of children like they enjoyed the morning light.

"Anything else?" Opposite, an old man with age spots on his face and hairless head asked.

Yangyang looked back at the man, startled, and stayed there like a wooden chicken.

"Bao'er, sing your 'rain rain' from yesterday!" Lao Ma was almost brainwashed by Yangyang's song yesterday.

Yangyang turned his head and continued to look at the old horse, singing: "The rain is raining, the rain is raining, the crops are laughing haha, the wheat is growing, the wheat grains are big fists, grinding into noodles, pulling them with a car, and baking an oil cake with a big wheel!" ”

After singing, everyone applauded, and the old people smiled and admired the new life of the flesh.

"Sing a 'long bench width' to the grandfathers again......" Zhiyuan deliberately proposed this song.

"The bench is long, the bench is wide, the bench is not as long as the bench, the bench is not as wide as the bench, the pole should be tied to the pole, and the bench should not be tied to the bench. The flat burden should be tied to the flat burden! The flat stool was in a hurry, and the flat stool was copied up...... The flat pole hit the bench and the bench was flat...... The flat stool was in a hurry, and the flat stool picked up the bench and hit the flat stool...... Well? ”

Everyone listened to it and their backs were in a mess—their mouths were in a mess, and they couldn't help laughing, and their depleted black eyes suddenly burst into laughter. The audience was laughing at her, and even her father covered his mouth and laughed, somehow, thinking that he had made a fool of himself or done something wrong, and he was ashamed.

"I don't want to memorize it...... Yang Yang seemed to see that it was mockery, she lowered her head, pinched her right finger with her left finger, blushed and stopped talking.

"It's okay, it's okay, don't carry it, don't carry it!" The old horse was afraid that Yangyang would cry in the ward, so he pointed out the door, and Yangyang walked to Zhiyuan. She hid behind Zhiyuan's thigh and peeked at everyone, and everyone smiled reluctantly at her - the flowers like the red sun.