It was July 22, 2012, and it was the day I returned to Shonan.

When I returned to the rental community in T City from Qingshi Town, I immediately booked a high-speed rail ticket back to Shonan, rested for one night, and took the high-speed train back to Shonan early the next morning, leaving in a bit of a hurry.

There are many reasons why I didn't continue to stay longer, almost all the classmates in T City have gone home for the summer vacation, and I can't find anyone to play with, and I spent the first half of the month with Wang Qiuqiu for many days, and now I don't have the intention of staying in T City to play, plus it's almost August, and there is only one month left in this summer vacation, and I have to go back to adapt to life over there.

These are all reasons, but none of the main reasons why I am in such a hurry!

Yesterday I just arrived home and was cleaning up the room, after all, I haven't come back for more than 20 days, and there is still a lot of dust accumulated, open the window to ventilate, and I was about to mop the ground with a mop, thinking about tomorrow and another day off to buy a ticket back to Shonan, but at this time my mobile phone suddenly rang.

I saw the caller ID, it was my father's call, he hadn't contacted me during this time, but I didn't expect to call me suddenly today.

Without thinking about it, I pressed the answer button, and my father's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Hey, Xiaosheng?"

It was a bit noisy on my father's side, as if there were a lot of people.

"Did you call me for something?"

My tone was flat, bland and a little cold.

My father's side didn't care about my tone, or he was used to it.

"Aren't you going back to Shonan to study at university, don't you want to go home early to see, our father and son haven't seen each other for a long time." There was some hope in his father's low tone.

I was silent and didn't answer him, and suddenly I frowned slightly.

"Are you sure you're at home?" There was distrust in my tone.

My father didn't answer me immediately, I sneered: "Don't pretend to me, I heard your radio just now, you should be at the airport!?" ”

I could clearly hear the sound of the radio in the noisy voices on my father's side just now, and with the noisy voices on his side, I didn't even need to guess that he was in the airport now.

"Say, call me for the hell, I'll hang up if it's okay."

His lies made me feel a little irritated, and if he told me something about yes and no, I would just hang up.

My father heard my impatience, coughed, and said, "I'm talking about business in Beijing now, and I just arrived today, and it may take a week to go back." ”

I frowned: "So what? ”

My father couldn't have said this to me for no reason, and I never cared about his whereabouts.

The father on the other side of the phone was silent for a moment and said: "Today, I received a phone call, it was from your second grandfather's side, just yesterday your second grandfather passed away, and the second grandfather's family asked me to attend the funeral, but I can't leave because of something, so I ask you to go for me." ”

"Second grandfather?" I was stunned for a moment, this is an unfamiliar title for me, when will I have another second grandfather?

Hearing the confusion in my tone, my father said: "Why, you are not impressed, the second grandfather is your grandfather's younger brother, I also took you to his house when you were young, and he also hugged you." ”

I really didn't have the slightest impression and asked, "When did it happen?" ”

The father replied, "When you were almost a year old." ”

I'm a little speechless, who can remember the one-year-old thing?

"Then why have I never heard you mention it and never met him?"

The father sighed, with helplessness in his tone: "You have been outside all these years, when have you ever been back home, I want to take you there." ”

“。。。”

I didn't answer, and my father said: "Your second grandfather and your grandfather have a bad relationship, they had a big fight before you were born, and they almost started to fight at that time, I was not at home or later listened to what your uncles said, and then the two fell out and your second grandfather left, and moved to a village called Pingtang Village next to Liucheng to live, and those of us who are juniors don't know what the two of them quarreled about, and they didn't tell us, However, the elders quarrel and do the younger generations naturally can't follow the coaxing, the relatives who should go still have to go, how to get along or how to get along, I used to go to your second grandfather's house for New Year's holidays, until you were born a year later, the company's business began to grow, I was busy with business things to go less, to these years has not had time to see your second grandfather, I didn't expect to suddenly receive the news of his death yesterday. ”

After speaking, my father sighed again, as if lamenting the impermanence of the world.

The father continued: "Anyway, blood is thicker than water and the dead are greater, although you didn't have any impression of him before he died, how can you send him off for the last time after he dies, there should still be etiquette, so as not to gossip about your second grandfather and their family." ”

I naturally understand the truth in this, since ancient times, China has paid attention to "etiquette", as a younger generation, no matter whether there has been contact before, but after all, they are relatives, and there is similar blood in their bodies.

"How many people in the family will go?" I asked.

The father was silent for a moment and said, "For the time being, you are the only one." ”

"What?" My father's answer made me a little hard to believe my ears, and I was surprised: "Where's Uncle?" What about the second uncle? Are you going to send me a representative like the National Assembly? ”

"Your uncle's family is traveling in the snow town, the second uncle's family went to the United States half a month ago, the third uncle's family is with your third brother Xiaotian, you also know where your third brother works, Xiaohu's phone can't get through, Xiaofeng can't leave in a lawsuit." There was helplessness and apologies in my father's tone, and he knew that it was not good to let me go alone.

The corners of my mouth twitched, and I didn't know what to say.

When my grandmother was young, she had a total of four children, all of whom were boys, my father was the youngest of the fourth, and my uncle's son was my cousin Ren Hu, a policeman who is now 29 years old. The second uncle's son is named Ren Rufeng, an excellent lawyer who is now 24 years old. The third uncle's son is called Ren Zhentian, who was admitted to the civil service after graduating from university, and now works in the government department in Hangzhou, I don't know what he does, and he is now 23 years old.

"At present, you are relatively close to home, even if they rush back for a day or two, it is not enough, your uncle, second uncle, and third uncle have all called me and told you to go to the funeral for them."

I rubbed my eyes, my father won't make excuses for lying, even if the second uncle in the United States takes a plane in a day or two, he should come back, to put it bluntly, he is too lazy to run.

I didn't say much, but suddenly I thought of something and said, "What about grandpa, grandpa should go, right?" ”

There was silence on my father's side for a while, and then he said, "I don't know, I don't have your grandfather's contact information, and I don't know if your grandfather knows about this." ”

It turns out that grandpa lives in a very remote place, and grandpa doesn't have the habit of bringing a mobile phone, and you want to notify him unless you go to the place where he lives in person.

When I found out that I was the only one who was going alone, I felt like I had heard a big joke, but I agreed to my father's request and booked a ticket for the next morning.

The next morning, I got on the high-speed train back to Shonan, and I was looking out the window at the scenery whizzing by.