Lao Ma was relieved to see that Tie Sheng was a little relieved, so he asked, "Brother Tie Sheng, how old is your grandson now?" ”

"I just finished the college entrance examination, wait for the results!"

"Let Jiansheng ask him to come over and accompany you more, there is a grandson on the side!"

"He doesn't like to go to the hospital...... Ay...... Whatever he wants! Tie Sheng waved his thin arm, sighed, and then said, "You are blessed with this girl!" ”

Lao Ma pursed his lips and smiled, nodded his approval, and then pointed at Yangyang and said: "Broken dolls-free and uncomfortable, adults are not comfortable, now is the most fun time, no matter how old you are, you will be disobedient!" You can't help it! His brother was in his first year of high school, and he raised the bar with me every day, pointing at me and shouting loudly, so angry that I couldn't do it......"

"I watched my grandson grow up when he was a child, and I don't know why when he grew up...... No kisses! He didn't want to talk to me, I was hospitalized this time, and he didn't come once......" Tie Sheng tilted his head sideways, very sad.

"How's he doing?" After a moment of silence, Lao Ma asked.

"He can't study, it's good to be able to get a specialty! He's not as good as his dad! Tiesheng closed his eyes and shook his head.

"Children and grandchildren have their own blessings, you take care of them!" The old horse soothed him.

After a while, Tie Sheng continued: "What if you do well in the exam? His dad is a 985 college, that's all! The mix is neither high nor low, the salary is small, the work is busy, and the life is barely ...... If it weren't for my savings, I'm afraid I wouldn't even have the money to live in the hospital right now...... Hey, it's not going to work! "Life has come to this point, his son treats him like this, Tie Sheng is still worried about his son, it is really pitiful for the parents of the world.

Ten minutes later, Tie Sheng spoke again: "I have been dreaming of my brother Fusheng recently, and my wife, his grandparents, and your aunt...... I dream every day that they talk to me or something...... They've been in my dreams for most of the last half a year......"

When Lao Ma heard this, he was shocked, and he wanted to say something but didn't say it.

Tie Sheng swallowed, and then he asked Lao Ma a question: "I always dream of these people who are gone, I'm afraid I'm not going to be soon?" As he said this, he held the old horse's hand tightly, and the expression on his face was indescribable—doubtful and affirmative, complex and simple, desperate and mad.

"I think so much! Big brother! I often dream of my mother and Yingying's mother, and I have dreamed of it for many years, I don't live well? The old horse patted the light and thin hand in the center of his right hand with his left hand.

When he clenched his hand, his heart only chuckled, and although his face was deliberately controlled, he couldn't suppress his panic. He didn't dare to touch his hand - the old horse was afraid! I didn't dare to let go, so I just continued to hold it with my internal organs.

"I know I'm almost there!" Tie Sheng nodded, and continued to lie on the pillow of the hospital bed, looking at the old horse with weak eyes—determined and unfocused.

The old horse didn't dare to look at him, looked down at his knees, and the two of them were silent for about ten minutes.

"Where is your house and land?" The old horse asked Tie Sheng.

"It's on sale!" Tie Sheng took a breath and said, "Regret it! At that time, I came to my son, but I didn't expect him to be successful in Shenzhen. I knew I wasn't going to sell it - it's better to retire in my hometown and let my nephew give me food than to die in this hospital......"

After taking a few breaths, he saved up enough energy and said, "A few days ago, a person just walked in this house!" The hospital is heavy, and the elderly are uncomfortable! I really can't stay any longer! The old horse's eyes followed Tie Sheng's index finger around the ward, only to feel panicked.

"No one wants to be here until they die! You look at these people...... Look at this ward, there is no movement all day long, except for crying out like a ghost howling in pain—with the cemetery...... Not much worse! Tiesheng added.

The old horse's eyes widened, and he didn't dare to gasp.

"You have a son in your hometown, don't be in the city for retirement in the future! The peasant people are dying here—like lonely ghosts......" Ironborn said with tears in his eyes.

The old horse shook his hand a few times, and he didn't know how to comfort him.

The two talked on and off for nearly two hours—ten minutes for a young man, but so long for an old man. The nurse pushed the dining cart in, and Yuan Tiesheng's daughter-in-law also came in, and after greeting Lao Ma, she opened the dining table on Tie Sheng's sick bed, and brought the clear soup and water, lukewarm, and looking like a scrap of rice to Tie Sheng.

"Brother Tie Sheng, then you can eat, eat well and rest, and I will come to see you in two days!" The old horse finally said this.

Tie Sheng lay there, still holding the old horse's hand: "I'm afraid...... I won't see you again......" I couldn't cry after speaking.

The old horse patted him on the shoulder and held his hand to comfort: "You think too much, I'll come in a few days!" ”

"Okay, okay, let's eat quickly, it's not good for your stomach if you don't eat anymore." The daughter-in-law stirred up the food and said to the old man.

"Let's go, Dad!" Zhiyuan also came to urge and helped the old horse up.

Lao Ma took out the envelope from his trouser pocket and put it in Tie Sheng's hand: "Brother Tie Sheng, you take it!" ”

Tie Sheng nodded, tears streaming down his cheeks, his lips moving but nothing to say.

Zhiyuan was a little surprised when he saw the slightly thick envelope, and then he picked up the old horse, turned his head to the old man on the hospital bed and said, "Uncle Yuan, you have a good rest, my father's feet will be better in two days and he will be able to leave, I will bring him over to see you, you can recuperate!"

Tie Sheng nodded, looking at the old horse reluctantly, and the old horse beckoned, turned around and limped to the door. At the door and outside the window, the two brothers waved and nodded at each other inseparably, as if they were parting from life and death.

Zhiyuan helped Lao Ma all the way out of the hospital, took a walk and rested. The old horse was speechless all the way, wiping his sweat from time to time, and turning around and wiping the corners of his eyes when he wiped his sweat. Yangyang couldn't understand what happened to his grandfather who was croaking in the past, so he just looked up all the way and observed him seriously.

After getting into the car, the three of them rushed back. Lao Ma looked out the window, recalling the demeanor of his eldest brother Yuan Tiesheng when he was young, when he was assigned to work in the county after graduating from college, and later he applied to be transferred to the town because his parents were old. At that time, Lao Ma went to the town to run errands, and most of them lived in Tie Sheng's house, and he was particularly envious of his work and his two-story small western-style building at that time! Yuan Tiesheng is an old man in the town, and every mayor of the town praises him and wants to take him away, but he himself is unwilling to move and guards his hometown all his life. Lao Ma had a smooth ride in the town in those years, and he borrowed Yuan Tiesheng's kindness and face. Tie Sheng has dedicated his whole life to a post, and he is conscientious and conscientious, and he is as clear as water, but now he is so sad......

Will Ma Jianguo visit his big brother again? Maybe, maybe never - it's not clear to him himself. The bustling city speeding by outside the window could not relieve the old horse's inner withering and depression, and finally, he couldn't help but lean against the window and cover his face and whimpered hoarsely. Hearing the rapid panting, Yang Yang was stunned, and Zhiyuan was also stunned. After a while, he threw a small packet of paper to Yangyang, signaling to wipe the old man's tears, but the old horse waved his hand and refused. I saw him take out a gray and white square scarf from the pocket on the chest of his shirt, cover his face with the square scarf and sobbed silently for a long time.

"Grandpa, are you crying or laughing?" Yangyang didn't see a single tear, and she couldn't hear whether the old man was crying or laughing when he was panting hoarsely. Zhiyuan wanted to stop Yangyang, and felt that the child could divert the sadness of the elderly, so he simply didn't disturb them and concentrated on driving.

"Hehehe......" the old horse smiled bitterly. After a few minutes, he wiped away his tears, folded the scarf, and put it back in his pocket.

"Grandpa, you're crying!" Yang Yang saw the tear-wet square towel and made a judgment.

"Hehe......"

"Did that old man train you just now?"

"What's going on?" The old horse was puzzled.

"Didn't that old man just now train you...... That's why you're crying? Yangyang uses her logic to explain the formation of crying.

"It's not that grandpa, it's life! It's life that trained grandpa! The old horse pointed to himself.

"What is life!"

"Hey...... Being a human being is life! The old horse estimated that the child didn't understand, and he wanted to explain but didn't know how to explain.

Yang Yang really didn't understand, and didn't ask, playing with the plastic frog in his hand. After the car walked a few kilometers, Yangyang straightened her waist and raised her head to stare at the old horse, her little brain was recalling and calculating something in a complicated way, and after calculating, she asked the old man embarrassedly: "Grandpa, you haven't given me the money yet?" ”

The old man, who was immersed in the past, was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed out loud and laughed for a long time. In the end, Lao Ma fulfilled his promise and took out his wallet and gave Yangyang ten yuan. Yang Yang cheered happily, chattering along the way, talking like a cricket.

The courier arrived in the afternoon, one was a new pen bought by Gui Ying, and the other was two boxes of fruits sent by Ma Ruifeng. Lao Ma didn't have the heart to look at these, the memories of the big brother were heavy and sad, and he seemed to be a little unbearable as an old man, so he asked Zhiyuan to help him open the Qin opera, and he sat alone in the rocking chair to listen to the play. Seven emotions and six desires hurt the body in the thick place, and there was no lunch break at noon, so he was a little sleepy at this time, and he fell asleep while playing at three o'clock.

It just so happened that Zhou Zhou came to play with Yangyang at this time, and took a gadget that automatically farted and blew bubbles. The two villains were playing with toys in the living room, and the crayon Xiaoxin's ass kept blowing bubbles, and the two laughed happily when they saw that their buttocks could still blow bubbles...... The old horse was woken up, intending to wait for them to finish laughing and then squint for a while, who would have thought that the two children had been laughing and laughing for half an hour.

He couldn't stand the extreme dead silence, and he couldn't stand the extreme excitement. The old horse listened happily at first, but then the more he listened, the more annoyed he became, and he didn't like to sleep in the aggrieved hut of the boy during the day, he really couldn't stand it, and yelled at the little doll! Zhou Zhou thought he was yelling at him, pouted and said to Yangyang that his grandmother was looking for him and that he was going home, Yangyang informed Zhiyuan, and Zhiyuan sent Zhou Zhou home.

After Zhou Zhou went back, Yangyang didn't understand what was going on, and moved to Lao Ma.

"Grandpa, why are you training Zhou Zhou?"

"I didn't discipline him, I trained you!"

"Ahh Yang Yang was stunned for a moment, it turned out that she had made a mistake, but Zhou Zhou was gone, and she couldn't see the fart bubble machine - what a big pity. Yang Yang pouted and did not speak for several minutes.

"What are you laughing at? Laughed for so long! ”

We laughed...... The crayon Xiaoxin, who can fart and blow bubbles...... "Yangyang squatted at the feet of the old horse and played with his little frog."

"Grandpa, why are you always angry?" After a moment, Yang Yang asked.

"Because I'm an adult."

"My dad is also an adult, but my dad never gets angry......"

The old horse was speechless when he heard this. At this point, he admires Zhiyuan. But he also knows that since ancient times, except for the sages and real people who can not be swayed by emotions, ordinary people can get rid of emotions, or emotions. The background color of emotions is emotion, and it is the heart that has moved.

The old horse thought of the dry hands again—the age spots on the hands, the bones and dents clearly visible on the backs of the hands, the cracked black cracks in the palms one after another, the five fingers trembling slightly from time to time, the white and bloodless nails, and the black old dirt between the nails...... The dark shadow of that hand lingered in his mind. He was afraid, he was irritable, he refused to recall Yuan Tiesheng's cloudy eyes that were about to rot.

Thinking of this, Lao Ma quickly picked up his mobile phone and changed it to a comedy - the story of Xie Yaohuan, a female official in the Tang Dynasty, he put the mobile phone to his ear and turned up the sound to the maximum, so that he could barely listen to it for a minute.

When he heard that Xie Yaohuan was ordered to inspect Jiangnan, suddenly a figure was swaying in front of him, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was Zaizai.

"Grandpa, can you keep your voice quiet? I'm doing my homework! ”

"I have bad ears, I can't hear when I'm too small!" The old horse turned his head and ignored the boy, in fact, he was afraid that the hand and the eyes would appear in his mind again.

"Ma Jianguo is not a good father!" Tsai said in a low voice.

"What are you talking about?" The old horse heard his name.

"Blow, blow, blow! And said that the ears are not good! I said a bad word about you, and you heard such a small sound! "Tsai Tsai dismantled the old horse.

"Hey, hey, hey...... I didn't hear it! "The old horse was amused by this kid. With this joy, Lao Ma's fear dissipated a lot, and with the ripples on the side, he was not afraid, and continued to listen to the story of the female official Xie Yaohuan.

At night, before going to bed, Lao Ma went to the bathroom to brush his teeth, and the boy was taking a bath inside. When he brushed his teeth, he found that the water from the faucet was always on - without stopping! The old horse calculated in his heart, how dirty this young man is! He took a bath worthy of drinking water for a week in his hometown - distressed, extremely distressed! The old horse reminded Tsai Tsai to save some water outside, and Tsai Tsai turned off the faucet.

When he took off his socks after returning to the house, he glanced down and caught a glimpse of the white paper in the trash can at the end of the bed - the paper was hard and smooth, and the old horse picked up the dozen or so pieces of paper and turned them over. He put the A4 paper on the table, meaning to let Tsai use it again. Who wants to see the waste paper he threw away on his desk after taking a shower, and threw it away again. The old horse was distressed when he saw it.

"Why did you throw away this paper before you ran out?"

"Running out!"

"Where's the end of it?"

"Ahh Tsai picked up the paper and showed the old horse the sparse handwriting on the paper one by one.

"This blank space can be written! You can also write it on the back! The old horse pointed and said.

"Write what? I'm a scratch paper for arithmetic! Tsai asked, ruffling his wet hair.

"No matter what you write, this paper can be reused!"

"Why don't I use it for you, I won't use it anyway!"

"Bring it!"

The old horse took the paper, sorted it out, and put it on his bedside table. In this way, there was nothing to say for a night.