Early Tuesday morning, Gui Ying got up to go to work, and went out to buy breakfast at eight o'clock, and Lao Ma was waiting at home. The two children were still sleeping, and the old man saw that it was almost nine o'clock, so he went to the room and called the children to get up.

Eight-year-old Xuecheng got up early, and when the old horse arrived at the door of the house, Xuecheng was folding lists. The old horse was silent on crutches, and saw him fold his own small clothes after folding the list, and then returned to the pillows, pillows and shoes, and also cleaned up the clothes and books on the ground for the boy...... Look at the boy again, with his feet stretched out of the bed, his hands curled up under him, and his body sleeping on his stomach - what a big toad with white and slender skin!

The old horse shouted a few times, the boy did not move, the old man walked to the bed and hit the feet of the boy with a cane, the boy rubbed up in pain to look at the person, and saw that the grandfather snorted a few times angrily, turned his face and fell asleep. Lao Ma and Xuecheng looked at each other and smiled. The old man called Xuecheng out, took him to the bathroom to wash his face and brush his teeth, and then the two went back to the restaurant, and the old horse washed a hard peach to cushion Xuecheng's stomach.

Fan the fan and looked down at Xuecheng to eat peaches, and the old horse's brain instantly ventilated and sobered up a little. Applying different attitudes to different children, he looked at Xuecheng, and unintentionally glanced at him when they were so big to prosper and prosper. The strong use the weak, the weak use the strong, the hard with the soft, the soft with the hard, their brothers and sisters are three and one person, the old horse gasped, at that time he seemed to use the wrong feelings and intentions.

At nine o'clock, Zhiyuan came back with breakfast, and Lao Ma, Zhiyuan and Xuecheng ate breakfast at the table together.

"I'm going to call the boy!" Zhiyuan finished peeling eggs for Xuecheng and was about to get up.

"Don't go, don't go, you can't wake up with crutches! Let him sleep! The old horse raised his chin to stop Zhiyuan.

"Dad, I told Yingying last night that I haven't told you yet, I'll go to Hunan this afternoon and bring Yangyang back tomorrow!"

"Okay! Yangyang went home and it was lively, open the door and take a look - huh? One more little brother! The old horse nodded at Xuecheng and smiled kindly.

Xuecheng also smiled lightly.

"Sizzle...... Shall I bring something for Grandma Yangyang! The old horse bowed his head and pondered as he ate.

"No need Dad! Don't be that much trouble! ”

"Hey, no, no, no! I'm thinking about what to bring to your mom...... Oh, and your uncle! The old horse stroked his gray and sparse hair, thoughtful.

"You got up earlier than me!" Tsai Tsai came out, and when he arrived at the restaurant, he first rubbed his learned head.

"People's children get up early, and you sleep like a pig!" The old horse was displeased.

"Hurry up and eat, it's getting cold!" Zhiyuan brought the bun to the eyes of the boy.

"Does your uncle smoke?" Lao Ma asked Zhiyuan.

"Pump, smoke! Addiction to cigarettes is also great! ”

"That's great! I brought him a little bit of tobacco leaves. This is not an ordinary tobacco leaf, it is strong, clean, and pure - this is what the mayor smoked before! It's expensive, and you won't lose the price with this! If your uncle knows how to smoke, he will definitely be able to smoke! And then there's ...... You go out and buy him some good tea later—I said I brought it!" The old horse commanded.

"Isn't this cheating?" Tsai Tsai interjected.

"Go! What do you interject when adults talk! The old horse glanced at the boy.

After eating, Lao Ma wiped his mouth early and said, "My Xifeng wine...... Don't bring it, the power is a bit big! I don't think he can drink it—and southerners can't get used to it! ”

"You can't bear it! Hide and find a reason! My mom said you love to drink Xifeng wine! "In the words of Tsai Tsai.

"Go, go, you know! No alcohol is allowed on the high-speed train! When the old horse saw that he was poked at the vital point, he was annoyed and angry.

"Zaizai, Dad went to Hunan to pick up your sister this afternoon, and will come back tomorrow. You took your grandfather and brother out for dinner - stop eating indiscriminately, do you hear? Your mother didn't come back in the evening, you take care of your grandfather and brother, and tomorrow morning, you are responsible for going out to buy! Know no! ”

"Humph! Know! "Tsai Tsai should bear the weakness.

"Ah that's the case, Zhiyuan, you give me the address of Yangyang's grandmother's house, and I'll ask your second brother to send a few bottles of honey to his grandmother, and the honey raised by our own people in the village - jujube flowers, cauliflower, and acacia flowers, for the old lady to nourish her body. I'm done eating, you hurry up and give me the address, quickly, don't ink! I'm calling now, and I'll be in Hunan in three or five days! After the old horse finished speaking, he went back to the house on crutches to find the phone number of the village beekeeper, the stammering Zi Jiangwa.

"Well, right away."

"Tsai Tsai, I have already picked out the cram school, in our neighborhood, for a month, eight hours a day, six days off and one day off, and we have already paid the tuition last night. This weekend - July 28th audition, July 29th - officially starts on Monday, and until August 29th, all eight courses are tutored, and you are ready to prepare. "Zhiyuan is informing and instructing.

"Na...... What about the free government training? ”

"That's mostly on the weekend, and then adjust the time!"

"Ah......h

"You've been resting for the past few days, and you've had nothing to teach grandpa how to use the computer—what you promised before; Then there is tutoring for my younger brother. "Hey!" Tsai stared at the buns, and sighed again with a helpless and loveless sorrow.

"You have to feel lonely, look for your classmates - you ask Han Dian, Feifei and Xiao Ran if they have any make-up classes with you, so that it will be easier to have a companion." As a high school teacher, Zhiyuan understands the pressure of high school students best, and the general trend is so unreasonable.

Tsai Tsai drank soy milk and still didn't speak. The beautiful summer vacation has not officially begun, and I fell into the make-up class first.

Xuecheng finished eating early, cleaned up the garbage on his desk, and cleaned up the garbage for his brother.

It's been another busy morning. After the honey matter was settled, Zhiyuan went downstairs to the tea shop to pick tea. Tsai Tsai tutored Xuecheng in the house for summer homework. It's said that it's counseling, and it's not serious to play with the same hip-hop. At half past ten, Tsai came out with a computer and threatened to teach Lao Ma how to use a computer. The old man who was watching TV was caught off guard, and when he saw the computer, he panicked at first.

"Turn off the TV, my dad asked me to teach you how to use a computer!" After Tsai finished speaking, he snatched the remote control from Lao Ma and turned off the TV first.

"That's it?" The old horse asked, pointing to something that was thin and small, like a dustpan.

"That's it! This is my Apple computer, I'll teach you how to turn it on and off first! After saying that, Tsai sat next to Lao Ma and put the computer on the armrest of the sofa.

"Then you teach well, I won't be responsible for breaking your computer!" The old man is cunning.

"Don't worry, this computer has been used for almost three years, I wish you broke it, if you break it, your daughter will buy me a new one immediately, I don't have to cry and beg her, kill two birds with one stone - how good!"

"Listen to what you say, and then look at you like this, up and down, left and right, inside and out, it's better to learn!"

"How am I inferior to him?" Tsai Tsai turned his head and asked loudly.

"I've been here for almost a month, when have you ever folded quilts, straightened your clothes, and collected table garbage? The room is like a pigsty towards you! I don't think you're messy, you still think I stink! At eight o'clock in the morning, more people learned to tidy up the bed smoothly and help you prepare the clothes on the ground! ”

"That's in someone else's house, I'm in his house and I'm ...... I'm also very neat. "Tsai stammered a little.

"Hmph, don't forget, he's only eight years old! You had this realization at the age of eight - you can pull it! The old horse rolled his eyes.

Tsai Zai was intricately locating his eight-year-old in his mind, and suddenly he was speechless - I don't know if he couldn't locate it or was stupidly frightened by his eight-year-old self.

"When you enter the society in the future, you will definitely meet people who have learned this kind of character, but whenever you meet this kind of person, grandpa tells you that this kind of person is either particularly cultivated and has a particularly good family background, or a particularly bitter family and a particularly precocious personality. Either way, you're sure to make friends with both of them! The self-consciousness, self-discipline, and tenacity of these people - you can't learn it even if you don't have it! The old horse leaned his head closer to his grandson and whispered.

Tsai Tsai's eyes were straight, he couldn't speak, and he listened carefully.

"Don't look at your young age, this character is completely different from you, more mature than you in some ways! There is a lot of energy in people's stocks, but you don't! As soon as you open your mouth, you are angry! In the future, you should pay special attention to this kind of person in society, you can become their friend, but you can't become their opponent! People are stronger than you, their hearts are more ruthless than you, and their wills are stronger than yours! You have also honed and honed your character, and you are about to take the college entrance examination, become an adult, and go to college! In the blink of an eye, it's very fast! Grandfather and grandson whispered to each other.

"Learn this character - no complaints, action, no nonsense - grandpa appreciates it! He is like wheat in the field, he can survive the winter, you are sorghum, you can't do it in autumn, you grow tall and can not resist! Haven't you heard people say, 'A cat that loves to bark can't catch mice, and a person who brags can't do great things'? ”

"No ......"

"'Deaf people love to interrupt, fools love to talk', have you heard this? The truth of the old saying is very hard, you are timid and talkative, and you have a light temperament, but your learned temperament is thick, and in some places it is very similar to your mother. ”

"yes, they all have a bad dad who everyone hates! Love to scold, love to do hands, love to drink! Seeing that he was being compared and criticized, he felt uncomfortable, so he deliberately choked the old horse with his words, and quickly cracked his body with a smile after speaking.

"Tsk! You doll...... Why can't you listen to it! The old horse raised his big palm and was about to slap the boy on the head.

Tsai Tsai stepped out and stood a meter away and pointed at the old horse and criticized: "Look at you, you see, if you don't agree with each other, you can do it!" Who's so similar to that! ”

"Play the piano to the cow, the cow doesn't hear it!" The old horse clasped his hands on his chest, too lazy to take care of it.

"Grandpa, I know what you mean! I listened to what you said today! Let me ask you, do you learn computer now? Tsai said solemnly.

"Do you love to teach?" The old horse's face is not unusual.

"I'm on command! You think I'm happy to teach you! Tsai sat down, brought the computer, and taught himself: "Look at it, this is the key to opening!" Press it to turn it on, and if it doesn't, it's off......"

"Hmm!"

Lao Ma looked at the computer, squinting at the child from time to time, and rejoiced in his heart. Looking at his sons and nephews, none of them are as smart as Zaizi - a little bit is easy. It is difficult to buy the world's things to buy Sun Xian, Lao Ma thought of this, and the corners of his mouth flew into the sky uncontrollably.

After trying it four or five times, it can be turned on and off.

Then Tsai Tsai showed the old man Taobao, and the old man didn't believe that there was anything on Taobao, so he shouted out a lot of things - fertilizer, seeds, mung beans, baked cakes, quilt covers, socks, wool, uppers, paint, sofas, wind oil, erhu, suona...... Where the old horse called the famous things, the boy found the objects and prices one by one. Tsai Tsai showed the old man the exercises, extracurricular books, toys and sports equipment he had recently bought from the Internet, as well as the laundry detergent, shoes, clothes, snacks and other daily necessities that his father had bought on other websites.

The old horse was amazed, not knowing that the world had developed to this point. He can understand mailing and express delivery - after all, this industry has existed since ancient times, but it is the first time he has seen online shopping, what kind of marquee, candles, carpenter's clippers, those horns, those horns, the next year's imperial calendar things are also being sold on the Internet, some people are buying; What robots, sweepers, drones, these things that are ahead of the times, high-priced and risky things are also being sold and bought on the Internet.

The computer seemed to open up a new world for Lao Ma, and he remembered the first time he had surplus food in spring, the first time he went into the county to see the high-rise buildings, and the first time he received a message with a BB machine. The old man took his reading glasses, took a pen and paper, and took the initiative to ask Tsai Tsai to teach him how to log in to Taobao and record how to operate it seriously. Because he didn't know how to spell Chinese, Tsai Tsai directly taught him to use handwriting input, and Lao Ma tried more than ten times before he barely learned the ability to search for mung beans, apples, and staples on Taobao. Just teaching search has been taught until half past twelve, and the boy has a dry mouth, constantly complaining that the elderly are a hundred times more difficult to teach than children.

The old horse is old, he holds the reading glasses and uses the old school of habits to carefully record how to surf the Internet, just this more than an hour to learn things, he memorized two full pages of paper, it is estimated that it will take several days to digest to remember. After learning, the old man closed the cap of the blue water fountain pen, removed his reading glasses, and sighed. Lao Ma was so shocked that he didn't want to believe that the world had developed to the point where he was out of reach, and he was even more unwilling to accept himself who was once at the forefront of the times and now can't catch up with the tail of the times no matter how much he catches up.

Today's lunch in Zhiyuan was a little late, and after drinking water, Tsai asked Xuecheng to come out to watch TV. Xuecheng was so hungry that he started playing by himself in the house early, listening to his brother calling, and came out to watch TV with his brother and grandfather.

Lao Ma saw that Xuecheng liked it very much, and he had the heart to dial it, so he asked Xuecheng: "Where did your grandmother go?" ”

"My grandma is gone." Xuecheng looked up and flashed his big eyes.

"What does it mean to be gone?" The old horse asked.

Xuecheng's little head seemed to be hastily calculating, and finally replied in a low voice: "It's gone...... It's dead! ”

"Oh, your grandma is dead! Then you...... Do you know that people die? ”

"Know! Belch...... I don't know ......" Xuecheng fluttered his big eyelashes.

"When a person dies, he disappears! You know, right? ”

Xuecheng nodded.

"Have you ever thought about it...... One day your grandfather and your parents will die, and when they die, they will never be seen—just like your grandmother! When a person dies, it means that he is gone forever! ”

Xuecheng opened his small mouth and stared at the round eyes, and raised his head to stare at the old horse.

"Ants will die, birds will die, fish will die...... Grandpa Ma will die, your grandfather will die, and you will die - everyone, every animal, everything will die. For example, if your dad is gone, he, like your grandma, will disappear into this world, and you won't be able to see you – never! ”

Xuecheng was like wood in the wind, quietly looking at the old horse, but his eyes were scattered.

"Grandpa, what are you talking about? You see that he didn't react much, can he understand this? Tsai asked.

"It's not that he doesn't react, he doesn't react! The fact that he didn't react just means that he listened! Eighty percent of those who responded quickly didn't understand! You don't understand what I'm saying! ”

Tsai stopped talking and turned his head to stare at the TV.

After a long time, Xuecheng lowered his head heavily, and the sofa was wet with a round piece of sour jujube.

Seeing this, the old horse smiled. He lit the hookah, took a big puff of smoke, and then sprayed it on Xuecheng's face, Xuecheng shook his head like a calf to avoid the cigarette, and the funny appearance of the little boy shaking his head amused the old horse.

"Xuecheng, do you understand?" Tsai asked.

"Huh...... I don't know! Xuecheng looked at the adult and smiled embarrassedly, but there was a trace of tears in his bright eyes. The eight-year-old child was confused as if he was alone in the clouds.

The old horse smoked a cigarette and spat smoke into the air. People are alive like tobacco leaves, full of energy, and dead like smoke—a pile of black ashes. What is life? It's just the smoke flying in the air.

If a person is exposed to death earlier, he will mature sooner. The more deaths a person witnesses in the first half of his life, the bigger the pattern of his second life and the bigger the world.