Li Feng followed the stream to find the address of the original third uncle's house from memory, and the earthen house with a grass roof has now become a three-story small building.

"Is anyone home?" Li Feng knocked on the doorknocker of the courtyard.

Half a sound, the door creaked open halfway, revealing the head of a young man, "Who are you looking for?" ”

"May I ask if the third uncle's family lives here?"

"Who is the third uncle? I don't know. The young man shook his head.

Li Feng was a little disappointed, could it be that he was in the wrong place? No, it's right to walk along the creek? He suddenly patted his head: Why am I so stupid, Third Uncle was what we called when we were children, where would young people know now.

"I'm sorry, I said it wrong, may I ask if your surname is Wang?" Li Feng asked.

"yes, how do you know?" The young man's face was full of surprise.

"That's right, do you have an old man in your house?" Li Feng actually didn't know the name of the third uncle, only that his surname was Wang.

"My father is here, but his legs and feet are a little inconvenient."

"Oh! Can you show me to him? ”

"Okay." The young man saw that Li Feng and the beautiful girl beside him didn't look like bad people, so he opened the door and let them in.

The two followed the young man up to the door of a small room on the second floor, and the young man pushed the door open and shouted, "Dad, two guests have come to see you." ”

"Come in!" A slightly old and tired voice came from the room.

When the three of them entered the room, they saw that the room was a little dim with the curtains drawn, and an old man about sixty years old with a haggard face lying on the bed with his eyes closed.

Seeing Li Feng, the old man's face did not have any expression, but Li Feng was very happy, this is the optimistic and cheerful third uncle in his childhood, even if he had no rice at home at night, he didn't care all day long, and now I don't know why he has become sick.

"Third uncle, do you remember me?" Li Feng asked him happily.

"You are ......" Looking at Li Feng, the third uncle was confused, he didn't know the young man in front of him at all, but this young man called out the name of the third uncle that no one had shouted for many years.

"I'm Ah Feng! The children of Zhang Wenhui's family at the entrance of the village used to be. Li Feng said his mother's name, after all, his mother had lived here in her childhood, and the third uncle, who was the same age of the third uncle, should remember it.

"Oh! Wen Hui's child, are you Ah Feng? The third uncle vaguely remembered, "Didn't you go to the big city many years ago?" How did you get back? ”

"Yes, yes, I'm Ah Feng, this time I'm going home to visit relatives on vacation, so I'll come and see you by the way!"

"It's good, it's good, you remember the third uncle, it's really a good boy, you can sit down." The third uncle struggled and half-leaned on the head of the bed, and said to the young man, "Son, go and get a stool for your brother Feng to sit on?" ”

The young man went to get two stools and came over, Li Feng and Zhang Han sat on the edge of the third uncle's bed, "Third uncle, what are you ......" Seeing the sick appearance of the third uncle lying on the bed, Li Feng asked.

"Alas! A few years ago, I was hit in the waist by a stone while working in a quarry, and now I am a half-paralyzed cripple. The third uncle sighed.

"Ahh Li Feng was taken aback, his childhood impression that the third uncle was alive and well, and now he has become like this, which makes him feel that the world is impermanent.

"Then you have to pay more attention to rest! Lie down. Li Feng helped him lie down.

"It's useless to be old, and if you can live one day now, you can earn one day." The third uncle's tone was helpless.

"Don't say that, I remember when I was young, you were very optimistic every day."

Hearing Li Feng talk about when he was a child, the third uncle was a little moved, and his thoughts seemed to return to the moment of youth, "Yes! At that time, I didn't have anything, and I felt very happy when I ate green vegetables and rice every day, but now I don't lack anything, but I feel that life is full of troubles. ”

Who isn't all like that? Li Feng thought to himself. More than 20 years ago, there was no mobile phone, no Internet, no mortgage and car loan, no sky-high bride price for marriage, no sky-high tuition fees for studying, no sky-high medical expenses for medical treatment, although life was hard, but it was the purest and simplest happiness.

"By the way, third uncle, in addition to seeing you when I came back this time, I also wanted to inquire with you personally." Li Feng finally got to the point.

"Who's inquiring?" The third uncle asked.

"When I was a child, was the Lan Lan family who lived next door to my grandmother's house still there?"

"Lan Lan!" The third uncle was recalling, "The housing area where your grandmother's house and Lan Lan's house are located was planned in a unified manner in the town a few years ago, and the old houses were demolished. ”

"Yes! I don't even recognize it. ”

"I remember that after your grandmother passed away, your house was not sold to the Li butcher who sold pork! Later, within a few years, Lanlan's family also moved away, and it has been ten years. ”

"Ahh Moved away? Li Feng was disappointed.

"Well, not long after Lan Lan got married, their family moved out." The third uncle said.

"Is Lan Lan married?"

"yes!" Speaking of this, the third uncle suddenly remembered something, "Speaking of which, this matter still has a little to do with you." ”

Li Feng was stunned, "How do you say this?" I haven't been back for more than 20 years, how can it have anything to do with me? ”

"Ten years ago, when Lan Lan was twenty years old, her parents talked to her about a family business, the man was from the next town, he was short and ugly, but the family had a few shops on the street in the town, and he was very rich."

"Lan Lan is so beautiful, she doesn't want to marry, she said that she was waiting for Brother Feng Feng to come back to marry her, and said that what Brother Feng Feng said would definitely count." Speaking of this, the third uncle stopped and asked, "I also feel strange, you have been away for so long, what did you say when you were a child that she will never forget?" ”

Li Feng smiled bitterly in his heart, how could the third uncle know that night, the unintentional jokes of the adults would leave such a deep impression on the young Lan Lan's heart.

"It was all a joke from childhood, what happened to Lan Lan later?" Li Feng asked.

"Lan Lan still can't resist the wishes of the adults, she got married, but she rarely came back after she got married, maybe she was resentful of her parents' decision, a few years ago the town was renovated, her parents stopped farming, sold the house and moved to the city."

The third uncle's son, who had been standing next to him, suddenly opened his mouth at this time, "Sister Lan Lan didn't live happily later, and the young people in our town often went to their town to play, and I heard that her husband gambled and prostituted because of a little money, and they quarreled all day long. ”

"Lan Lan's life is not good!" The third uncle sighed.

Li Feng felt a bitterness in his heart.

Although the third uncle kindly persuaded Li Feng to stay for lunch, Li Feng still had to leave on the grounds that he was still in a hurry, and before leaving, he took a few hundred yuan to the third uncle, and the third uncle praised this child for being really sensible.

Back in the car, Zhang Han laughed at him, "You have harmed a good girl's life again." ”

"What does this have to do with me?" Li Feng was puzzled.

"If you hadn't left a seed in her heart, how would she have missed you? If it weren't for you, she would definitely take the initiative to find her happiness, and she wouldn't be able to extricate herself from an empty promise. ”

Li Feng didn't know how to refute it, he was silent, he couldn't understand how some jokes from his childhood could leave such a deep memory in Lan Lan's heart.