In January, on an early morning with a faint sunshine, Zhang Haifei and Huang Siyao were walking in the woods. To be exact, it was Zhang Haifei driving his automatic wheelchair, making the sound of a motor, and Huang Siyao walking beside him.

January in Guangdong is still a bit cold, but it's certainly much better than the rest of China. The smell of the sea still smelled in the air, but they were both used to it. The nearby sky dome was filled with a shallow, milky white haze, covered with a small blue sky. So it feels like being inside a wall, always surrounded by it. Life is like a dream, like a fascination, but it is always within the walls.

A flock of free-range chickens squeaks on a nearby farm, and the occasional pig can be heard. At this time, the farmworkers were already working in the fields.

Mr. Zhang had it sifted through the coal mine with sifted gravel recently. When these stones and waste residues oxidize and emit sulfur, the color changes strangely. In dry weather, it will have a bright pink shrimp shell color, and in wet weather, it will have a darker crab-like color. Now the trail is a light shrimp shell color cream. The bright pink color of the sieve under her feet always made Huang Siyao like it.

Zhang Haifei carefully drove down the slope from the hill of the bungalow, and Huang Siyao held on to the wheelchair with her hands. In front of them was the woods. Since the young people of this land have gone to the big cities, the land here has been slowly returned to forest. The woods are becoming denser, and a variety of wildlife that has not been seen for a long time can be seen occasionally.

At the edge of the woods, there was a hare scurrying around, chewing on something gently. A flock of birds suddenly soared into the air and gradually disappeared into the small sky.

Everything in the woods was motionless. There are not many dead leaves on the ground. But the forest was still put to use, and lychee, longan and huangpi were mainly planted here. The woods generally don't need to be tended, but now that spring is here and the lychees are starting to sprout, Zhang Haifei still hired a forest farm caretaker.

Zhang Haifei loves this wood, he used to live here when he was very young, he loves these lychees and longan, his taste buds have been used to them since he was a child, and he has fallen in love with them.

The wheelchair slowly drove up the slope, jolting across the land. Suddenly, a clearing appeared on the left. Here, you can look down the treetops below, the railroad tracks of the high-speed train. Huang Siyao stood there staring, this was a gap in the woods far away from the earth. From here, you can see the outside world. But she didn't tell Zhang Haifei about this.

Zhang Haifei made a blank face and slowly walked up in a wheelchair. When they reached the top of the slope, he stopped; He didn't want to risk the long, bumpy downhill road.

He struggled to get up from the wheelchair, holding the wheelchair with one hand and Si Yao with the other.

"It's amazing to have such weather and such a place." Zhang Haifei sat in early spring, under the faint sunlight, and said to Si Yao in Hakka. They usually communicate in Cantonese, but when they are in a good mood, Zhang Haifei will speak a few words of Hakka.

"You think so?" Si Yao, who was wearing a blue knitted skirt, said as she sat down on the stone bench next to the path.

"Yes, that's what I thought! This mountain forest seems to have belonged to my family since my grandfather's generation, and later when I contracted it, my father contracted the mountain forest of nearby villagers. ”

"My father-in-law really had a vision, and the price was very low at that time!" Si Yao echoed.

"I want to keep this grove intact...... Not changed. Some things never change and it's one thing to be happy about. Zhang Haifei said.

There was a certain sadness in his words. This grove is still planted with lychee and longan, perhaps the same as it was a hundred years ago.

Zhang Haifei was a little tired, so he went back to his wheelchair and sat in the pale and weak sunlight, which shone on his delicate hair and on his ruddy, plump, and unfathomable countenance.

"When I came here, I felt more than ever that our old Zhang family had no regrets." He said.

"But this forest is older than your old Zhang family." Huang Siyao said gently.

"Indeed!" "Our family has a complete family tree, which was not destroyed even in that catastrophe. Our ancestors have been inherited from Henan to Jiangxi and then to Huizhou for perhaps a thousand years. I want to continue to pass it on. ”

"Does it have to be?" Si Yao said, "Do you have to save it, after all, the times are different, and many couples take the initiative to choose Dink." ”

"No, it still has to be passed on, which is very important to the Hakka people." Zhang Haifei said, "You are from Chaoshan, and you may value this kind of inheritance more seriously." ”

They were silent for a moment.

"Yes, I take it more seriously, but our two daughters, my father didn't necessarily have to have another son. It's too hard to pass on. Huang Siyao said.

"I don't know how long it will last! All we can do is pass it on, and we can only do our part. I feel like everybody in our family has done their part here since we owned the land. One can oppose customs, but one must maintain traditions. Again, they were silent.

"yes!" She said slowly.

"So it's easy to have a son. A person can only be a link in the chain. He said.

Huang Siyao wasn't very keen to talk about inheritance, but she didn't say anything. She was thinking that it was strange that he wanted a son so much, which did not match his personal situation.

"I'm sorry we can't have a son." He said. His passionate eyes were fixed on her.

"It should be a good thing if you can conceive a child from another man, I'm not sure." "If we raise this child here, he will belong to us and to the land." I don't really care if it's biological. If we raise him, he will be ours, and then he will be passed on to the next generation. Do you think it's worth considering? ”

Si Yao finally raised her head to look at him, and said slowly: "You can also consider IVF." ”