"Let's go talk to Dad, he has been lying down all day today and barely spoke!" Zhiyuan looked at the old man in the living room and said to Gui Ying.

"Hey! Today I have retained a big client, and this year's income is not much less. Tsai, if you can keep him, I will reward you so much! Gui Ying held out five fingers towards her son.

"Good! Deal! Let's go together, don't help the two of you! Tsai pouted and shook his bangs, then took an apple from the fruit bowl, and walked to the living room on tiptoe, followed by the husband and wife. After arriving in the living room, I saw the old man squinting and listening to the play, not knowing whether he was asleep or not, the boy jumped up and threw himself on the sofa. The sofa bounced violently and shook, startling the old horse with a groan.

"You're a wild boar!" The old horse complained.

"Your daughter is back drunk, let you know." Tsai pointed to the hostess who had just sat down on the other sofa and said.

Lao Ma glanced at Gui Ying and said to Zaizai, "Tsk! It's a day by day! You didn't see me sleeping! ”

"Grandpa, aren't you packing up your boxes to leave? Shall I ask you a question? ”

"What?"

"Yangyang is going to have a birthday, do you want to give her a birthday?"

"When?" The old horse sat up and asked solemnly.

"Next March! Hahaha......" After Zai finished speaking, he pointed to the old horse and slapped his legs and laughed, and the husband and wife on the sofa next door also laughed.

"Tsk!" The old horse snorted, moved his buttocks, and said solemnly: "Next March—too far!" I can't wait. ”

"And what about my birthday?" Tsai nibbles on an apple to test his grandfather.

"Leave it behind, leave it behind! I said let's go! After the typhoon, go! The old horse lifted Erlang's legs and stroked his hair, very decisively.

"I have my birthday next Thursday, and you won't stay either?" Tsai waved at the old horse.

"Which of your words is true?" The old horse turned his head in disbelief.

"Humph! You don't believe it! Tsai ran to his room in a hurry, and soon rushed out again, holding his ID card and letting the old man see the date of birth. Lao Ma didn't believe it, took his ID card and took a serious look at it from a distance of more than half a meter, it was really born on August 15!

"To stay?" Tsai Tsai grabbed his ID card and asked his grandfather.

"Tsk...... It depends! It's going to have to take seven days! The old horse hesitated.

"Dad, I thought about it, I'll take you to eat something delicious these days, and you can try all the famous restaurants nearby, don't come in vain! This Saturday and Sunday, our family will go out for two days, and next Saturday when your pass is ready, how about our family go to Hong Kong and Macau for a round! That way, you can also celebrate your child's birthday! "Zhiyuan helps from the side.

"Grandpa, you haven't given me a birthday yet!" Tsai said as he spread his legs and nibbled on the apple.

"What's going on at the doll's house? One 100-day feast is enough! The old horse squeezed his eyelids.

"My Hunan grandmother has given me several times! My uncle gave it to me twice, too! You're the only one in this family who hasn't given me anything! Our family hasn't ever given it to you! My mom has been talking about giving you a big birthday! Tsai said and squeezed his eyes at his mother.

Gui Ying lowered her head, embarrassed and guilty. She licked her lips and shouted at Lao Ma, "You wait for the Mid-Autumn Festival to pass before leaving!" ”

"Good fellows! Wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival! How much sin do I have to suffer! The old horse crossed Erlang's legs and hugged his knees, and twisted his face towards the south gate with a look of displeasure.

"You're not here yet, you're the boss! Who in this house would dare to let you suffer? Gui Ying couldn't help but talk back when she saw that the words were ugly, and after finishing speaking, she also crossed Erlang's legs and hugged her knees, twisting her face towards the east balcony, and she was also displeased.

"Hey, don't quarrel with your father and daughter! What is it talking about now? It's a matter of when my grandfather will go back! Don't expand or divert contradictions, let alone get involved in historical topics! We have to take matters into account. Tsai Tsai stood up and stretched out his arms to mediate in the middle.

"Mid-Autumn Festival is next month! Your feet will be healed by then! In the middle, I can also take time to go to a big hospital to take a film for a review. Zhiyuan interjected.

"Grandpa, do you have to buy a ticket if you want to go back? Do you have to ask my mom or dad to buy a ticket for you? Isn't it? ”

Seeing that the old man was speechless, Tsai Tsai continued: "Then do my mom and dad have to use your ID card to buy tickets!" Guess where your ID card is now? Tsai slowly pulled out an old ID card from his trouser pocket, and then jumped and swayed in front of the old horse.

"Tsk!" The old horse saw that it was his ID card, and reached out to fish it out.

"Eh, eh! Didn't catch it! Hahaha...... "Tsai Tsai was jumping around and twisting his buttocks in the living room comically, which made the husband and wife laugh too.

"Don't lose me! Lost it, see if I don't clean you up! The old horse pointed to the boy.

"Don't worry! I put your ID and mine together and hid it at home! Tsai Tsai bent down and put the two ID cards in one place, and then said: "It's decided, give me a birthday, come to Hong Kong and Macao with my family, and your old man will go back to your Majiatun!" When you arrive in Hong Kong and Macau, I will take you to buy some souvenirs, take more beautiful photos for you, and then wash them out, so that you can go back and let the villagers see - what a cow! How cool! Isn't it grandpa? "Tsai pointed his fingers and looked forward to the old horse.

"Hmph......" The old horse was amused by his grandson, and gasped silently and laughed.

"Grandpa, you wait for my birthday to leave, I'll give you a few more bottles of wine, your favorite west-phoenix-wine! My dad and I partnered to buy you a box to send back, so you can have more wine when you get home! Eat, drink and have fun, and you can also check your feet for free! Do you think it's beautiful? Cool? In the middle of the living room, Tsai loudly patted the palm of his left hand with the back of his right hand.

"Huh!" The old horse shook his head and snickered.

"Okay! Listen to me, that's it! We'll talk about going home in two weeks! You two look at my negotiation skills, Village Chief Ma doesn't object, does he? Manager Ma, Manager Ma, you need to be promoted! Be gentle with the elderly! Outwitt! To be touted! Tsai Tsai pointed at Gui Ying again, amusing everyone.

"Hurry up! Said five hundred! I've kept you for more than two weeks, that's funny! Tsai Tsai's face suddenly changed and he reached out to Gui Ying to ask for money. Gui Ying was a little annoyed, patted the palm of the boy asking for money and said, "I can only give half of it in two weeks!" ”

"Humph!" Lao Ma saw that Zaizai kept him for money, and he couldn't laugh or cry. The old man stood up on crutches, patted his buttocks, and grinned so much that he couldn't hide his smile at all. When he passed by the boy, he pointed at the wild and unruly boy with his index finger.

"Hurry up and give the money, at least three hundred!"

"No, two hundred at most!" Gui Ying clasped her hands on her chest and negotiated with her son there, her expression as embarrassed as if a dog skin plaster had stuck to the soles of her shoes.

The mother and son were there, you and I negotiated the price one by one, and Zhiyuan also left with a smile. Gui Ying pretended to be unhappy, but in fact, her heart had blossomed, and the old man could stay for two more weeks - half a month, which meant a lot to her.

It would not have been good to stay a little longer, the old horse should have been happy, and when he thought of his living room, his own orchard, and his own village, the old man in the hut suddenly became sad again.

At this moment, I don't know how many people are snoring in the cool night of Majiatun. The jujube tree in the corner of the west wall should be half red and half green now. The old horse fanned his fan, remembering the ploughing cattle in the dusk and bathing in the cool breeze in the orchard.

On the firewood pile, it was boxy and half a foot of snow. The hut was dim, warm and cold, and it was the place where he was born. Under the wall of the east courtyard, neat and tidy, the dog's tail swaying. The four sides of the earthen kang, the dust decorates the wall, where there is the smell of ancestors.

In the fields, the dew is clear and the earth is refreshing. March cauliflower, golden thousands of miles, full of fragrance.

I have seen so many places, walked for 70 years, and the place where I was stung by scorpions on the soil kang was the most comfortable, and the time when the shadows of the trees in the small courtyard were the most moving.

On Thursday morning, a family of five sat around the table for breakfast. Tsai Tsai held the bread in his left hand and swiped his mobile phone with his right hand and asked Lao Ma: "Wow, wow, wow!" Grandpa, do you know what the wind speed is in Shenzhen now? ”

"How much?"

"Level twelve! The wind force at the center of the typhoon is fifteen! Isn't it awesome? Horror or not? Tsai Tsai's jaw trembled.

"Weibo said that the Ping An Building is swinging! The six-hundred-meter, more than 100-story building is swinging! Zhiyuan glared.

"Oh my God! With such a strong wind, won't people die? The old horse asked as he ate the cold scallion pancake.

"More than thirty people have died, most of them working by the sea!" Gui Ying replied.

"Good fellows! It's so windy! The old horse was amazed.

"We're okay, only the water is cut off, not the electricity! I filled up all the power banks at home last night! Also bought a few batteries! It didn't work! Zhiyuan said.

"Today at noon...... Isn't it still eating cold bread? Tsai pinched the bread with a look of disgust.

"Some of them eat well! People in many places haven't eaten yet! Zhiyuan said.

"Didn't you look at the pictures on Weibo? Several villages along the coast were flooded, and the water in the house was more than a meter high! You didn't think about what they were eating this morning? Gui Ying stretched out her hand and gestured.

"What is Weibo?" Lao Ma asked casually, but he was stunned by the other three.

"It's online! Everyone is on one website, talking about typhoons today, eating and wearing tomorrow, and sending pictures and videos! Grandpa, look, this is the picture of the mega typhoon posted on Weibo! "Tsai Tsai came over and showed Grandpa the picture on the Internet.

The young man stood next to the old man and explained while swiping his mobile phone: "This is a police rescue, you see the water on the ground is like a river, this tree is broken, this road is closed, oops, this car is a boat, this is the wind and rain filmed in someone else's video, you see this roof has been overturned......"

The old horse was holding the mobile phone and swiping the picture, the young man was proud, but the old man was shocked and speechless. I have lived for seventy years, and I have never seen such a strong wind.

After breakfast, Lao Ma went to the balcony with an umbrella to watch the wind and rain, and the balcony had already floated a lot of water, and Zhiyuan used a circle of dirty clothes and rags to block the water from flowing into the living room. The old horse cautiously moved to the edge of the balcony, and saw that it was gray outside, the wind was whistling in his ears, the white rain was rolling in the sky, the garbage leaves were boiling indiscriminately in the low air, and the water was rushing on the ground. The old horse looked down at the trees in the distance, shaking violently and violently, and was distressed by the wind. The old man stood for a long time, his trouser legs wet and his shoes wet, so he turned and went back into the house.

Twenty years ago, there was a year when the wind was so strong that it broke a paulownia tree more than a foot thick. At that time, everyone felt that it was rare, and they all ran to the tree at the east end of the village to see the freshness - the people in the village had never seen such a strong wind. I didn't expect that the wind in the north was nothing compared to the wind in the south. Today's casualties from air crashes, car accidents, track crashes, and drugs and food are probably far inferior to natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and droughts and floods, as the 2008 earthquake demonstrated.

The old horse was terrified, no matter how successful a person is, he can't withstand the sky. More than 30 people died at once in a gust of wind, and I don't know how much we will lose when the wind stops. Someone like himself who has avoided all kinds of natural and man-made disasters in the past 70 years can be regarded as a fluke among the lucks!

Everything flows, and nothing stays. Only at this moment, it can be taken seriously. But at this moment, where? How long is it?

It will never be able to stay, and at this moment, it is so short that it is impossible to calculate, and people do not know how much the past and present have been squandered in order to pursue that moment of drunken life and death. The long life of a person is as short as a dream, let alone at this moment.

In the past billions of years, there is no beginning and boundless, and the future of the unbounded world is far away, in the track of time without beginning and end, the current spring flowers and autumn moon are just a glimpse of the sky, and the gap between Qi Ji, as for the ten years of women's beauty, the three generations of men's foundation, the children's riding bamboo horses, and the four generations of the old man's family fun, it is barely a pity to clear the dust and inhabit the weak grass.

The real changes in time and space are so grand that humans can't see them, and they're so long that humans can't wait for them. A person's life is indescribably short for the planet. One can only witness one moment on earth and nothing more. The patterns of the rocks and the ravines of the earth record the time of the earth, and these deep years are enough to humble mankind.

The old man was in a panic, lying on his little bed, and remembered the hand of the big brother and the aftermath of the day before yesterday. When people are so humble, do they care about a funeral after death? Lao Ma couldn't figure out why he was so paranoid. In an instant, the old man's sorrow came from it, and he couldn't help it. He hurriedly turned on his phone, trying to interrupt his grief with his voice.

"The three armies in the camp are all hanging filial piety, and the wind is waving the white flag and the snowflakes are fluttering. White white horse, white flag, silver bow, jade arrow, white feathers. Civil officials and ministers wear three-foot filial piety on their heads, and military generals wear white robes. Because of the matter, the king put on his robe, and for it was the grace and righteousness of Taoyuan. The king of the spiritual throne hangs the paper money, and that is the second brother - the king of Jingzhou. The second brother Yingling listens to the root seedlings, just because you are proud of your temperament ......"

Xingsheng called, Gui Ying dialed the phone and chatted with the second brother, it turned out to be about the typhoon in Guangdong. Gui Ying hung up the phone and chatted with his eldest brother Xingbang about the typhoon situation in Dongguan. At eleven o'clock, Zhiyuan came out to prepare lunch, and when he came out of the house, he caught a glimpse of the old man's sad face. The filial and considerate southern son-in-law came to call Yangyang again, and arranged for her to go to her grandfather to play and make the old man happy.

Yang Yang came to the house with a lollipop and saw that his grandfather and brother were there. She quietly moved to her grandfather's side, didn't say anything, licked the lollipop to herself, and looked at the deep sadness on her grandfather's face from time to time.

"Grandpa, why don't you speak?" Yang Yang asked as he sat in front of the old horse bed.

"Grandpa is tired." The old horse opened his eyes slightly and said.

Yang Yang's head leaned against the table of the boy, the back of his head rubbed against the edge of the table, and licked the candy in his mouth. A few minutes later, Yangyang pointed to Lao Ma's mobile phone and said, "Grandpa, this doesn't sound good!" Not as good as me! ”

"Which one are you?"

"My nursery rhymes, and cartoons."

"Okay." Lao Ma turned off the Qin cavity in his mobile phone.

"Grandpa, are you going home?" Yang Yang lay on the side of the old horse's head and said.

"Hmm."

"Where are you going?" The child asked, shaking his head.

"Go back to Majiatun, go back to grandpa's own house, and go back to where your mother used to live."

"Then why don't you stay at my house?"

"Tsk! Well...... Enough is enough! Why, you don't want grandpa to go! Can't bear grandpa? ”

Yang Yang blinked his eyelashes and nodded, cute and pitiful.

"Hehe......" The old horse was amused by Yangyang's little appearance, and then pouted and asked, "Then what should I do?" ”

"This! Here you go! After thinking for a while, Yang Yang took out a lump of money from his coat pocket, and the old horse reached out to look at it, ten yuan, five yuan, one piece, and a few cents of coins. The old man smiled and leaned against the head of the bed, putting the money back in order.

"It's just such a small amount of money, it's not enough! What to do? The old horse shook his head with the money.

"Then you wait!" Yang Yang ran back with a cigarette, took out a small pink leather bag from the cartoon wardrobe in his house, and then took out three 100 yuan from the leather bag. The little girl held the money in her left hand and the lollipop in her right hand, and trotted all the way back to the old horse.

"Is it enough?" Yangyang gave the money to Lao Ma.

Lao Ma took the money, deliberately counted the numbers, took pictures of the authenticity, and then pulled his face and said slowly: "It's not enough!" I can't help it! ”

"I don't have any money!" Yangyang spread his hands to express his innocence and helplessness.

"Tut-tut! Grandpa will go back tomorrow, and he won't come back again! Hey......" The old horse sighed and squinted at Yangyang, only to see her blank face, her chin dropped, and her red lips almost drooling.

Yang Yang rubbed the back of his head against Tsai Tsai's desk, but his face was sluggish - his little head was obviously busy calculating, but he couldn't figure it out. The old horse didn't speak, waiting to see how she was. After a few minutes of silence, Yang Yang suddenly ran out again, and then came over with three brand-new hundred-dollar bills. The little man threw the money on the old horse's chest and asked proudly, "Well! So are you still leaving? ”

The old horse was overjoyed in his heart, but his face was stretched. He deliberately counted several sheets, took pictures of the real and fake, and continued to feign sadness: "Not enough wow! Forget it, grandpa will pack up the box and go back tomorrow! Don't want to stay here anymore! After the old man finished speaking, he put all the money just now on the side of the bed, pushed it towards Yangyang, and signaled that he didn't want it.

"Then you wait!" Yang Yang rushed out again, and came with joy. This time, she held up three more tickets and threw them to her grandfather, and asked him loudly, "Then are you still leaving?" ”

"Grandpa can't say enough! Don't take it! It's useless! The old horse pretended to be very sad and turned sideways and lay down against the wall.

Yang Yang was stunned, not knowing why. She walked out of the house, and when she came back, she directly carried her wallet, held the wallet to the old horse, and said in a clear voice: "Grandpa, I only have so much, all for you!" Are you still leaving? ”

The old horse was curious, turned over and took the small wallet and opened it to see, there were only three or four left, he sighed, and then grinned and nodded: "Okay, for your money's sake, grandpa will stay!" ”

"Hehehe......" The boy next to him pointed at Yangyang and laughed: "Stupid or not!" ”

Yangyang pinched the lollipop in both hands, his head was on his side, and he didn't know what his brother was laughing at.

"Are you willing to give up your money?" After the old horse put the money in order, he shook three times in front of Yangyang.

Yangyang nodded, shook his head again, and then didn't know whether to nod or shake his head, and the little man was blinded. The old horse laughed, and the boy was laughing. Lao Ma put the money in his wallet, and then carried the strap of the wallet and said to Yangyang: "Here you go!" Grandpa is not leaving, and he is ready to live in your house in the future! ”