It's all gone. Everything is gone. Those vigorous white days. Those hectic nights. Those endless meetings. Those mountains of documents. The roads, clouds and moons that traveled thousands of miles. Those 10 million of his beloved fathers and fellow villagers. The 28,000 square kilometers of Pingchuan land with spring green and autumn yellow. The new and vibrant ancient city of Pingchuan. The mighty sunshine and the mighty moonlight that filled the city with the howling wind.

How quiet, and how melancholy.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the newly completed internal small hotel on the Longfeng Mountain TV transmitter, Wu Mingxiong's old face was full of cloudy tears. In the eyes of tears, the city of Pingchuan at night was also hazy, and the brilliant lights of thousands of homes turned into a brilliant shower of stars with a swaying tail, as if half of the starry sky had fallen.

At this time, a milky voice sounded behind him: "Grandpa, Grandpa Wu!" ”

Wu Mingxiong was in a trance when he heard the voice, thinking it was a hallucination, and his hand held on to the edge of the window and did not move.

The milky voice sounded clearly again: "Grandpa Wu, I'm here!" ”

Wu Mingxiong turned around slowly, never expecting that it was Shang Dequan's daughter Shang Hao who appeared in front of him. Shang Hao held a bouquet of flowers in his hand, walked up to Wu Mingxiong and said, "Grandpa Wu, this flower was brought to you by Grandpa Chen and many uncles and aunts, look, how beautiful it is!" ”

Wu Mingxiong took the flowers, squatted on the ground, stroked Shang Hao's red little face and asked, "Shang Hao, how do you know that Grandpa Wu is here?" Where's your Grandpa Chen? ”

Shang Hao proudly puffed up his little chest and said, "Who doesn't know that you are hiding here?" Grandpa Chen and those uncles and aunts didn't dare to come, so they let me come. ”

Wu Mingxiong asked: "Who sent you up the mountain in the middle of the night?" ”

Shang Hao said: "It's Grandpa Chen." Grandpa Chen sent me up the hill and watched me enter your door before driving away with the driver's uncle. ”

Wu Mingxiong hugged Shang Hao to the sofa and sat down, and said again and again: "Okay, good, Shang Hao, you are here, grandpa is worried that no one will talk to me!" ”

Shang Hao said very seriously: "I made a mistake yesterday and broke a piece of glass on the window in the classroom, and the teacher asked the parents to go, and Grandpa Chen said that he would go tomorrow and bring five yuan to compensate." ”

Wu Mingxiong said: "I'll pay tomorrow, Grandpa Chen is a parent, and I am also a parent!" ”

Shang Hao said: "Grandpa Wu, I assure you that my ball was smashed against the wall, and the ball was disobedient." ”

Wu Mingxiong smiled and said, "It must be that the ball is disobedient, I know!" The ball is round and running around. ”

Shang Hao also smiled, and then asked, "Grandpa Wu, why are you hiding here?" Did you make a mistake? ”

Wu Mingxiong nodded and said, "Yes, grandpa is not the secretary of the municipal party committee now." ”

Shang Hao said: "Will you also go to work at the Desert River water conservancy site like my father?" ”

Wu Mingxiong's eyes burst out of his eyes, hugged Shang Hao tightly, tears dripped on Shang Hao's little head with pigtails and raised little face, choked up and said to Shang Hao: "It's okay, the water conservancy project of the Desert River has been completed, and grandpa will not go to the water conservancy site." Grandpa is going to take you to plant buildings on both sides of the ring road, so that our Pingchuan City will become very big, very big, and grow very tall and very tall! ”

Shang Hao corrected and said: "Grandpa, the building is not called planting, it is called building." ”

Wu Mingxiong said: "Yes, build a building. The building we built also has your father's hard work! Fortunately, my good boy, you have had a good father, and your father is in the spring of Pingchuan City today, on the splendid land of 28,000 square kilometers, in the clear and sweet water of our desert river and Xinxi Lake......"

August 20, 1996 at Xuzhou Garden Hotel

Author's note:

I would like to express my sincere thanks to the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Jiangsu Provincial People**, the Xuzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Xuzhou Municipal People**, the Party Group of the Jiangsu Writers Association of the Communist Party of China, and the Xuzhou Garden Hotel! The creation of this work has received their strong support and enthusiastic assistance, which is for memorization.