The next day, Yun Chenming opened the curtains at twelve o'clock at noon, and the days here were much longer than the nights.

He washed up and came out into the familiar street. The white concrete road has cracked, pedestrians are scarce, and the familiar streetside scene evokes memories of his childhood, where four young boys laugh and chase, and the big cow falls at a corner and gets six stitches on his forehead.

The dog likes to shout from the balcony diagonally opposite: "Amin... Amin... Come on! Xiaohu likes to ride a bicycle, and he can take three people to "drag race" on the concrete road.

And then there's her, who likes to run behind the butts of four little boys, and after the age of fifteen, four little boys run behind her butts.

Yun Chenming walked slowly down the street, and there were his memories everywhere on the dilapidated street. The familiar grocery store has been open for thirty years, and a dozen meters further away is a local snack bar, which has been open for as long as he can remember.

At this time, he also felt his stomach growl, so he walked towards the snack bar. Next to the snack bar, there was a strange man in a black suit holding a strange black box, looking around for something.

Yun Chenming didn't care, and walked into the snack bar quickly, the familiar tables and chairs, the boss Lao Zhang is from Shaanxi.

Lao Zhang, who had dark and wrinkled skin, was stunned for a moment when he saw Yun Chenming, and then showed a sincere smile, "Young man, are you back?" ”

"Hello Uncle Zhang, business is booming."

"Haha, that's good, but business just..., what do you want to eat today? The lamb is freshly killed in the morning. ”

"Okay, let's have a haggis and a few more skewers of mutton, I'm hungry, I can't eat authentic big skewers in southern cities."

"Okay." Lao Zhang answered and went to the back kitchen to work.

Yun Chenming looked around and there were not many diners, they were all old people from the town, who came to eat a bowl of choppy noodles and take a sip of wine.

Fifteen minutes later, the dishes he ordered came up one after another, chewing the taste of hometown in his mouth, and Yun Chenming's heart was satisfied.

After two o'clock in the afternoon, the diners were almost gone, and Lao Zhang was lying on the counter thinking about it.

Yun Chenming finished eating the last bunch of mutton and was about to get up to settle the bill, when two people came in the store, one was the man Yun Chenming had just seen at the door, the other was wearing a gray jacket, with a cigarette in his mouth, the stubble was sparse, the entire left side of his face was burned, the scar looked hideous and terrifying, forty or fifty years old, he scanned the small shop with eagle-like eyes, and then sat down opposite Yun Chenming with a big grin.

"Hey! Boy, you're here for a tour? ”

"Come back to visit family." Yun Chenming frowned and replied.

"Where do you live?"

Yun Chenming was very disgusted with this kind of person in his heart, what did he want to say about you? And when he saw the fierce and evil appearance of this man, he held back his words. Just nodded, not wanting to talk to him anymore. Yun Chenming stood up and prepared to go to the checkout.

"Boy, have you ever seen a strange stone?" The man asked again.

Yun Chenming couldn't hold back this person's unreasonableness anymore and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

The scar-faced man laughed, took a cigarette and spit it in front of Yun Chenming and said, "I'm from the relevant department." ”

Yun Chenming wanted to ask again, but at this time, Lao Zhang also had an argument with the man in the black suit.

Lao Zhang shouted loudly: "I only have beef and mutton here, no bullshit stones, and if you don't eat, you will get out." ”

Not to be outdone, the man in the black suit said: "If you don't cooperate, believe it or not, I'll arrest you!" ”

"What do you guys do?" Lao Zhang's voice increased a little more, and he reached out to get the wooden stick on the table.

"We're from the relevant departments."

"What bullshit department? I'm not afraid of your food hygiene supervision! ”

When the two sides were tense, the scar-faced man spoke: "Xiao Liu, let's go, what's the point of arguing with a meat seller." ”

The man in the black suit followed the scar-faced man and walked out of the shop with a swearing. Yun Chenming paid the money to Lao Zhang, and comforted him a few words by the way. When he left, Lao Zhang was still muttering, the business is so bad, it's a big deal to quit and go back to his hometown to Yunyun.

Yun Chenming stopped wandering around the street and found a car to go to the cemetery. He put some new soil in front of his grandparents' graves, and then put the paper money and steamed buns he bought in front of the grave to worship. He stood in front of the grave for a long time, remembering the loving faces of his grandparents when he was a child, and tears flowed unconsciously, and their older generation dedicated their youth to the oil town and the dream of the rejuvenation of the motherland. Cast the future of the nation with flesh and blood, and finally bury the bones in this land that has struggled for half a lifetime.

In the evening, Yun Chenming cooked some food bought from the small supermarket at home and ate a little casually. I thought in my heart that the friends I wanted to see when I came back this time were not at home, so I had better go back to the city where I worked in the south as soon as possible.

Lying in bed late at night and unable to sleep, Yun Chenming thought about a lot of things, his childhood, study, work, etc., and fell asleep in a daze.