"By the way, what did you say that girl was for?" As the general's grave was left behind the car, farther and farther away, until it was gone, the air in the cab seemed to have solidified, and it circulated a lot, and my father rolled down the window with one hand, spit out a mouthful of phlegm, and had nothing to say.

I put away my thoughts and said, "It's my college classmate, I haven't been in touch since I graduated, and I ran into it by chance a few days after I came home for the Mid-Autumn Festival last time, and I'm currently helping out in my store." ”

"Help?" Daddy turned his head to look at me and said, "What is there to help you in that store, it won't be you dragging people...... You can't do things that delay the future of the girl's family. ”

I laughed and said no, how could I drag someone in the store because of myself, and after I met her, she had already gone to the store to help, and she had always been friends, and it had only recently begun to become that kind of relationship.

"What did that girl do before? You don't even want a job anymore? As soon as I explained this, my father suddenly became even more curious.

"I'm a professional, and I'm also a freelancer after graduation, my shop was originally a painting studio, and she just happened to have plans to open a studio, so she simply partnered with me and was usually responsible for taking care of it, otherwise I'm like this, I'm afraid I can't open it anymore." When I said this, I didn't look at my father.

"Okay...... And the last question, where are the people? Dad asked again.

I thought about it and said, Dad, what are you doing, you haven't even skimmed the eight characters, and you started to check the household registration, and when they come after the New Year, you can ask again, and it's not so anxious to hug your grandson.

Dad scratched his head and smiled, and when he saw that I didn't want to say more, he didn't ask anymore.

After changing the topic, there was a ride and a pair of people talking, and when the golden deer car roared all the way back to Lijiazhai, it was already dark.

In our place, there are mainly ethnic minorities, and the Han people rarely form a big village, and almost half of a village is an ethnic minority.

The Lijiazhai is located on the halfway slope between the two villages of Panyang and Yang, closer to Panjiayuan, and separated by a mountain from Yangjiaba. It is said to be a village, but in fact, up to now, there are only about 20 households, mixed with several households surnamed Zhang, the first is our common ancestor, after taking a girl from the Pan family, it branches down next to the Pan family's courtyard.

In the early decades, there was still a small forest and a small dirt slope between Lijiazhai and Panjiayuan, but later, people began to pay attention to the convenience of transportation, and they all built houses on the side of the road, and now they have long been connected together, regardless of each other.

My old house, originally on the edge of the slope of Lijiazhai, is a two-story brick house, when we were very young, by my grandfather with the front four sons to do work to save money to build, one person, next to the big tile house, it belongs to the fifth uncle and Uncle Man, when I was a child is very lively, but in the years I left home, have settled in the city one after another, my family also built a new house on the side of the road, it was completely deserted, only the New Year, or when the hometown has something to come back, will come back to live temporarily.

As soon as I climbed a bend under the courtyard of Pan's house and came to the gentle area, I saw that my mother was already waiting under the big ginkgo tree on the outside of the road, despite the cold wind.

Three hundred meters further on, is my new house on the side of the road, my mother can be at home, wait for me to arrive and come out, but she is more than 300 meters, less than a minute can not wait, to run to this tuyere to wait.

In addition to being able to see me earlier, another reason is that from this location, you can see the car from a distance.

As soon as the tractor started to slow down, I opened the car door and shouted Mom to my dad's muttering, and jumped in.

Seeing that my car jumped down before it stopped, my mother, who was originally smiling, suddenly sank her face and feint to count angrily: "It's not okay to wait for the car to stop and then get down!" If you have to jump like this, you will be comfortable if you fall. ”

I scratched my head and smiled, walked up to her in three or two steps and said, "Who told you to come to this place to wait in the cold, if I really fall down, you won't come and wait if you fall a few more times." ”

As soon as I heard this, my mother couldn't help but patted me on the back angrily, and scolded with a smile: "Ha son, how can you curse yourself like this, my mother is not cold." ”

No matter how cold it is, there is no reason to withstand the cold wind, looking at the corners of my mother's forehead and eyes, it seems that the wrinkles have deepened a little compared to the last time, I can't help but feel a little sour in my heart, and then I smiled and called Mom.

Although he is not yet fifty years old, he is not old, and he can still be regarded as young in the city, but the countryside is different, and it will always make people, especially a woman, age faster, even faster.

Fortunately, in the past few years, although life is not very good, it is also much better than when I was a child, at least I don't have to worry too much about life, otherwise the wrinkles on my forehead will be much more obvious than now.

After a few laughs, my father started the tractor again and drove home, while my mother and I walked back like a walk.

On the way, I asked almost the same question as my father, and I answered it again in more detail.

Although the questions and answers are roughly the same, but a woman's heart is born to be thinner than a man, the same question, my father will not think about it much, my mother is different, and I soon keenly noticed that I came back suddenly this time, not as simple as I said I had nothing to do.

"Honestly, is there something wrong with coming back suddenly?" When I finished, my mom asked with a smile.

Seeing the answer to my father's no problem at all, I couldn't bluff my mother, so I had to explain that it was getting colder and colder, and my grandfather was not in good health, so I wanted to come back and spend more time with his old man. Of course, this is only one factor, and another reason is to come back in advance to prepare more, don't you already know that Sister Yun is going to come to pay New Year's greetings after the second day of the Lunar New Year.

Mom obviously didn't believe this set of arguments, but seeing that I had moved my grandfather out, I didn't have much to say.

When I was 18 years old, my grandmother had passed away from illness, and I was not yet ready to go home, but when I heard that my grandmother was seriously ill, my master still accompanied me on a trip. Since then, grandpa has also aged a lot all of a sudden, don't look at them noisy and noisy for a lifetime, but after grandma passed away, he ran to the grave twice in three days, often sitting for half a day, or even a whole day, around the cemetery, he also took care of the weeds without a single tree.

For this reason, my grandfather was not happy to go to the city, so he was always taken care of by my family, and the other uncles subsidized the pension.

Seeing that she was still not very relieved, I had to change the topic with a smile: "Mom, I just came back a few days earlier, I don't believe this or that, I ask questions, it is like my son is not welcome home." ”