After Wang Yi and Zhao returned home, they didn't expect the room to be empty.

"Isn't Uncle at home?"

"I guess I'm out for a walk."

Zhao looked around the bedroom and bathroom, but found no trace of his father, so he proposed to go out to find his father.

"I'll drive you." Seeing that Zhao was looking for something to go out, Wang Yi said anxiously.

But Zhao is looking for the relationship between himself and Wang Yi, and it is actually not appropriate to think about it.

Zhao Xun didn't want Wang Yi to get involved in more of their family affairs, and finally refused Wang Yi's request.

Zhao Xun asked Wang Yi to cook at home alone, and when she and her father came back, it happened that he had cooked the meal, and it happened that the two of them were all beautiful.

Wang Yi saw that Zhao Xun was so resolute, and he thought that nothing should happen, so he agreed to let Zhao Xun go to his father and come back.

After Zhao found the door, it was already dark.

Walking out of the door of the community, I thought that I could sweep a shared bicycle and go over quickly.

But as far as Zhao looked for, there didn't seem to be any shadow of a bicycle.

But after all, it is a small town, and there are only a few pedestrians on the streets at this point in time.

Not even a hitchhiker.

Although Zhao Xun's old house is not too far from the new home, if you walk over, it will indeed take a long time.

Seeing that Zhao Xun left very quickly, thinking that his father had not come home so late, Zhao Xun had an ominous premonition in his heart.

In the end, Zhao Xun converted the brisk walk into a trot.

It was supposed to take thirty minutes to travel, but Zhao Xun only took ten minutes.

Finally came to Uncle Liu's house, Zhao looked at the brightly lit house, and then stopped, panting loudly at the door.

"I'm tired!"

Zhao Xun, who was standing at the door of Uncle Liu's house, couldn't help but complain.

After finishing speaking, he immediately realized the inconsistencies and immediately snorted a few times.

After Zhao Xun walked to Uncle Liu's house, he saw his father sitting on the sofa on the ground.

It's just that after everyone saw Zhao find the house, no one spoke.

Zhao Xun was naturally a little frightened by this scene, thinking that something had happened.

Zhao Xun asked cautiously;

"What's going on?"

Zhao Xun's voice fell for a long time, but no one answered.

I saw Uncle Liu leaning against the back wall around a thick quilt and hanging his head without speaking, nor did he raise his eyes to look at Zhao Xun.

The three or four layers of torn cotton mattresses under the body still exude the smell of urine from time to time.

Liu Jing, who was standing on the ground, didn't say a word, her hair was draped upwards, and the locks were drooping on her face, obviously looking like she had just cried.

"Dad? What the hell is going on here? ”

After Zhao Xun finished speaking, his father slowly raised his head and glanced at Zhao Xun, and then said listlessly:

"Lao Liu, he can't even eat now, and he doesn't even seem to know how to pee."

"Can't eat? Yesterday, when we delivered the meal, couldn't we still eat five dumplings? ”

"Well, I just can't eat anything today."

"Why is it so powerful all of a sudden?"

"In the morning, Xiaojing urinated on him, and he could pee a little at first, but then he urinated directly on the mattress, and then you asked him if he peed, and he kept shaking his head without speaking, and as soon as you took it, he started to pee again!"

After listening to his father, Zhao Xun sat down next to Uncle Liu and tried to talk to him.

After all, when she came to see Uncle Liu yesterday, he was still able to speak.

"Uncle? What do you feel sick about? ”

After getting along yesterday and today, Zhao Xun obviously felt that the fear he had when he first met yesterday was slowly disappearing.

Zhao Xun got closer to Uncle Liu and tried to reach out and pat Uncle Liu's shoulder.

It's just that Uncle Liu still didn't speak, and he didn't even raise his head to look at Zhao.

In fact, everyone understands in their hearts that Uncle Liu is like now, obviously his time is running out, but no one dares to say it.

Time was flowing minute by minute, and Zhao Xun suddenly remembered Wang Yi, who was still cooking at home, and said to his father:

"Dad, Wang Yi is alone in our house."

"He's at home by himself?"

"Well, he said he wanted to cook you a meal."

When the sensible Liu Jing heard this, she immediately said:

"Uncle, you and Sister Zhao'er should go back quickly, it's so late."

"But are you alone?" Father said.

"It's okay, anyway, my dad and he are like this now, it doesn't make any difference for all of us to stay here, you're tired for a day, let's go back and rest with my sister quickly!"

When Zhao Xun and his father were leaving, Zhao Xun felt that he had something to say, and he still had to say it when he should say it.

"Xiaojing, call your sister in the evening!"

"Oh-uh, that ......"

Liu Jing heard that Zhao Xun seemed to be saying in a commanding tone, and she didn't pay attention for a while, and she didn't know what to say.

"You said, if she doesn't come again, I guess I won't even be able to see your dad for the last time."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Xun left without even looking back.

That night's meal, everyone ate very dullly.

His father didn't speak, neither did Zhao Xun, and Wang Yi naturally didn't dare to make a sound.

After dinner, my father returned to the room early listlessly.

Wang Yi accompanied Zhao Xun to clean the pots and pans, and then issued a warm "invitation", hoping that Zhao Xun could accompany him home.

Zhao Tao glanced back at his father's bedroom, and said to Wang Yi;

"Why don't you change the day, my dad doesn't seem to be in a good mood today, and I want to spend more time with him."

"Okay, anyway, there's nothing going on in my unit these days, and I just happened to take a vacation for myself, if you have time, come to my house to find me."

"Okay, see you tomorrow."

After Wang Yi left, Zhao Xun knocked on his father's door.

Seeing that my father has been absent-minded since he came back, he must have been worried about Uncle Liu.

Sure enough, my father sat on the edge of the bed, did not draw the curtains, and stared blankly at the dark sky outside the house.

When my father saw that Zhao had come in, he asked:

"Xiao Wang is gone?"

"Well, let's go."

"Come, sit here Dad."

The father patted the mattress next to him and said to Zhao Xun.

After Zhao Xun sat down, he looked at his father.

"Looking for a child, do you say that there is really retribution in this life?"

"Retribution? Why do you ask? ”

"Do you think so?"

"The book says that good and evil will be rewarded in the end, I don't know if it refers to the retribution you are talking about."

"Do you know, on the day Lao Liu came back, he vacated his house and went directly to our old house to find me."

"But he didn't know we had moved out, did he?"

"Well, didn't our family move here a long time ago, and he asked around with those neighbors.

Later, the person who knew the address of our new house told him, and then he suddenly appeared at our door that morning with a sloppy beard.

I was shocked, all I could think about was the years he had been missing, and he hadn't found his girl at all.

Maybe wandering? Or have you never been out of the town at all? Or is it being collected for debts?

My head was very messy, very messy!

It wasn't until he slowly called out my name and talked about the old things that I slowly became more steady.

After I let him in, he sat down on the couch and I brought him a glass of water.

He held the paper cup tremblingly in his hand, and kept saying that our house is so good, and there is such a big sun.

I knew he must have had something going on, or he wouldn't have done it, but I wouldn't have thought about it at all.

Later, while we were chatting, he told me everything before and after, including what happened after he went to Beijing.

He cried that he was terminally ill and could not be cured by any amount of money.

When he came back this time, he was waiting to die.

He has nothing to ask for, his daughter doesn't forgive him, and his son has no ability, he hopes that after he leaves, he can let me take care of Xiaojing more.

He said that Xiaojing's nature is not bad, but he is not a good adult, and his living environment from childhood to adulthood is too poor.

Even his father, he hasn't been in contact with any good people.

At that time, he was not as sick as he is now.

So, when he came back, the first thing he did was come to me.

I was stunned by him at the time, and I couldn't believe the truth of the matter.

The next day I got up early in the morning, and I didn't know how to explain it when you asked me where I was going, so I just hid it.

originally thought that Lao Liu would be able to survive for a while, but he didn't expect that after returning to his hometown, his physical condition became worse and worse.

Later, I was always thinking about what happened in the bone tube back then, and I never had the face to confess to you again.

Until Xiaojing appeared yesterday, I think I couldn't hide it.

Actually, I've wanted to talk to you for a long time, but it's hard to speak, so you've been worried about me, can you forgive me now? ”

After his father said this, Zhao Xun knew the cause and effect of this whole thing.

Thinking that my father is also kind-hearted, how can I forgive him?

"Dad, there's only so much we can do for Uncle Liu, and you've done enough, don't condemn yourself too much."

Zhao looked for his father to see that he was too sad because of Uncle Liu's matter, and his father's health was not very good, but he couldn't afford to toss it like this anymore.

"I just feel sorry for Aixiang."

"You can't be blamed for this, Dad!"

"Yes, Aika has never had anything to do with me, until the day she died, it wasn't because of me, but I just wanted their two children to have a better life."

"That's fate, isn't it?"

The father shook his head and said nothing more.

Zhao Xun knew, and Zhao Xun also understood his father's desire to speak.

Zhao Xun, as the daughter of his father's first wife, was named after his father's second wife, but now his father is deeply in love with another woman, this feeling, Zhao Xun can't imagine what words can be described in this world.