But the boss stopped him, "Eh, wait, are you asking the third child of the family?" ”

"Uh..., yes." Wen Xiao has no impression of this middle-aged aunt, and she shouldn't be a relative. But the people in the village generally knew each other, and she was a stranger, so she probably took a second look and recognized it from her similar appearance to her father.

"It's your sister on your back, right?"

"That's right."

"You're going to visit your parents' graves?"

"Yes, Auntie, I'm a little in a hurry, so I'll go first." Wen Xiao didn't want to talk too much about family affairs with strangers

"So? Then go, I haven't seen you come back in a few years, so I have to go quickly. ”

Hearing her say this, Wen Xiao also left behind her sister's back

"Eh,, who's that person?" As soon as the middle-aged aunt sat back at the mahjong table, someone asked

"You weren't here before, so you don't know. Three years ago, did the third child and his wife hear that they had passed away in a car accident? The two people just now were their children, two poor people. ”

"Oh, I see, it's pathetic."

"What is this, and what's even more pitiful, after their parents died, their uncles and aunts didn't want their brothers and sisters, and they shared the house that should have belonged to their brothers and sisters."

"This! Wouldn't they even have a place to live, so how have they lived in the past few years? ”

"Well, who knows? Forget it, it's none of their business, continue to play mahjong. ”

...

Half an hour later

It was past eleven o'clock

Wen Xiao finally arrived at the old house of the Wen family, the old house is a single house near here, I heard that it was built by Wen Xiao's grandfather, after nearly a hundred years of wind and rain baptism, it has long been a little dilapidated, but the second uncle still lives here with a family.

"Xiaoting, are you more comfortable now? Do you want to come down. Ask Xiao shook her sister who had been lying on her back

"Well, it's better, brother, let's go first."

Hearing what her sister said, Wen Xiao also squatted down, took the umbrella first and then put her down, but found that she was still a little unstable, so he held the umbrella and carefully led her to the old house.

As soon as he approached, he saw a man sitting on a small bench in the doorway, scraping a piece of baked pork skin with a knife in his hand, probably preparing a lunch meal.

This man is Wen Xiao's second uncle, Wen Xiao's father's younger brother, and Wen Jialiang.

Probably because of Wen Xiao's gaze, Wen Jialiang seemed to feel something, so he raised his head to look at Wen Xiao, but he didn't seem to recognize Wen Xiao for a while, and his expression was a little puzzled.

"Second Uncle"

Wen Xiao was the first to speak, he could see that Wen Jialiang didn't recognize him, after all, he hadn't seen him for almost three years, and he wasn't so tall three years ago, and the change was quite big.

Because of Wen Xiao's shout, Wen Jialiang also recognized it at once, and regardless of the rain, he stepped forward and said in surprise, "It's the third brother's boy, ask Xiao?" ”

"Well, it's me, second uncle." After asking Xiao, he also gently pushed his sister who was hiding behind him, "Xiaoting, say hello to the second uncle." ”

"Second uncle is good." After asking Xiaoting to finish speaking, she ran back to Wen Xiao and hid behind her, seemingly reluctant to have much contact with the Wen family

"Haha" Wen Jialiang didn't care and said with a smile, "I haven't seen your brothers and sisters for three years, and they have all changed a lot." Hurry up, get inside. ”

As he spoke, Wen Jialiang was about to take the Wen Xiao brothers and sisters to the house

"No, second uncle, because the time is a little tight, I came back this time to see my parents and left." Wen Xiao didn't want to go into the house, because it was the time for lunch, and he had to do something if he couldn't figure it out.

"How can you not go in when you're here? It just so happened that I was going to cook, and it was not too late to go back after lunch. ”

"Second uncle, we've already eaten on the way, so we really don't need it."

"But..."

Just as Wen Jialiang was about to persuade Xiao to enter the house for lunch, he was interrupted by a woman's voice, "Husband, your nephew has said that he has eaten, why are you still pulling him to eat?" ”

The person who spoke out was a middle-aged woman who had just come out of the house, asking Jialiang's wife, and asking Xiao's second aunt, Zhou Lanying. Probably because of the perennial farm work, the wind and the sun are exposed, and the person is particularly old, and his face is covered with ravine-like wrinkles.

Ask Jialiang said to Zhou Lanying, "Wife, how can you not bring someone into the house for a meal when you finally come back?" ”

"Don't speak." Zhou Lanying scolded

"I...", asked Jialiang what else he wanted to argue

But at this time, Wen Xiao opened his mouth, "Second uncle, the two of us really ate, so we don't have to go in, the purpose of our brother and sister coming to the second uncle is to let the second uncle show us the way, and the memory of the parents' grave is already a little blurry." ”

If it weren't for the staggered mountain paths, I didn't come back for three years, and I don't remember much about where the graves of 'Wen Xiao''s parents were, Wen Xiao was actually not going back to the old house, so he took his sister to secretly sweep the tomb.

Hearing Wen Xiao say this, Zhou Lanying immediately rushed to Wen Jialiang and said to Wen Xiao, "Okay, wait until I take your second uncle into the house to find a sickle and umbrella and then let him take you there, there are a lot of weeds on the road, and you can't walk without a sickle." ”

After speaking, he didn't care about Wen Xiao's reaction, so he pulled Wen Jialiang into the house.

Zhou Lanying's words sounded so good, but Wen Xiao knew that Zhou Lanying pulled Wen Jialiang into the house and it was definitely not as simple as looking for a sickle

"Brother, we don't want to stay here anymore, can we go home quickly after seeing our parents?" Wen Xiaoting pulled the corner of Wen Xiao's clothes and said

"Well, I'll be back later." Wen Xiao comforted

It seems that Xiaoting can also feel something

For example, the look of disgust

...

Inside the old mansion

"Here, take."

Zhou Lanying handed the sickle hanging on the wall and the umbrella on the table to Wen Jialiang, and then said, "I told you that after you bring them over, you will take them to another path, but you are not allowed to take them this side again, lest you want to take a bite when you see the family eating meat." ”

"Eh, you, you're my own nephew, can I leave anyone for a meal?"

"Yes, yes, he is your nephew, am I not your wife, An Cheng is not your son. Just the poor and sour appearance of those two little cubs, you still called them to eat, didn't all the meat go into their mouths? What will your wife eat later, and what will your son eat when he comes back? Why did our family finally eat a meal of meat, and they still had to share it with outsiders? Our family doesn't ask him for anything, why do we please him? ”

"Then it's just a piece of meat, can't you buy it after eating? Our family is collecting rent every month, so we can't afford to buy a piece of meat. ”

Zhou Lanying heard Wen Jialiang say this, and even raised her voice, "Ask Jialiang!" I get angry when you mention the house, if you hadn't loosened your mouth and distributed half of the ownership of the house to your two sisters, would we have borrowed money everywhere to buy back that half of the ownership? As a result, I owed a lot of debts, and the house was rented out just to pay off the money? Otherwise, our family would still be living in this shabby house? ”

“...”

Zhou Lanying's raised voice also made Wen Jialiang a little speechless

But Zhou Lanying didn't let him go, "Don't pretend to be a good person for me now, and kiss my nephew?" How much money did you give your nephew after he took the house from him? 30,000 yuan? You must know that the house was worth more than 1.5 million at that time! ”

"Didn't you ask me to give that much?"

"Hehe" Zhou Lanying smiled sarcastically, "Are you against it?" ”

"I..." asked Jialiang to refute just one word

"Okay, I won't tell you more, if you dare to bring the two of them back, when An Cheng comes back, I will take him back to his parents' house, and you can live with your own nephew!" After Zhou Lanying finished speaking, she went up the stairs to the second floor, and she didn't care about asking Jialiang.

"Hey~"

...

Wen Xiaohe and Wen Xiaoting waited outside the house for a long time, and Wen Jialiang came out of the house with a sickle in his hand and an umbrella, and his expression did not change from before.

"Let's go, I'll take you two to the cemetery of the third brother and three sisters-in-law."

"Hmm"

Wen Jialiang walked in front, and Wen Xiao led his sister to follow behind, and at the same time, he tried his best to engrave the markers he encountered on the way in his mind, so that next time he came, he didn't have to ask Wen Jialiang to lead the way.

The more the mountain road goes, the more forks there are, and if it weren't for the fact that my memory has somehow become a little better now, I'm afraid I won't be able to remember it when I come back next year. At the same time, there were more and more weeds on the side of the road, and the sickle in Wen Jialiang's hand did come in handy, he wielded the sickle to cut down the branches and weeds that blocked the road one by one. Wen Xiao held both an umbrella and a bag with one hand, and hugged his sister with the other, otherwise he hadn't seen his parents yet, and the clothes he had changed today were stained by the muddy water attached to the weeds, and he didn't care much about it, it was a school uniform that wasn't very clean.