It's the end of the day. The exams for the five grades were completed in one day. On the day of the exam, the leaders of the Central Primary School came to Yongtai Primary School to visit my father and mother. When a leader came into the examination room to inspect it, he walked up to my position and touched my head and looked at my exam papers.

The parents were also invited by the commune's leaders in charge of education. My parents have been working at Yongtai Primary School for more than ten years, and in their words, they have made a great contribution to the education of Tangwu Commune.

A few good people in the village who were close to my parents took turns to invite our family to dinner. Everyone hopes that their parents will have time to go back to the East Gate to play, and they all say something about not forgetting the East Gate. The parents sincerely invited them to play in Hua'an.

"Hua'an, we don't know about facing south and north," said an old man.

"Don't worry about facing south and north, go to Yangjiang Station and take the bus to Hua'an. Yangjiang County has a direct shuttle bus to Hua'an. Father said.

"Hey, old. Not to mention Hua'an City, even the county can't remember how many years I haven't been there. ”

"We still used a wheelbarrow to push a load of rice to the county to exchange salt once that year. After so many years, I don't know what has changed in the county. Another old man with a very white beard said.

"I've heard that there are more cars than ants on the streets of big places. We're worried that we'll be hit by a car before we even get to your house. A younger man said. I have the impression that his face is very dark.

"Don't worry. The car doesn't crash into people. ”

"Does the car have eyes?"

"Almost." Mother said with a smile.

"As long as you agree on the date to come, you don't have to worry about the way from the station to my house, I will go directly to the station to pick you up." Father said.

"That's pretty much it."

"My old Zheng does what he says. I really hope you will go around Hua'an and have a look. Especially if you are younger, you must go out for a walk and see the big places. Also, everyone here, if there is anything, if you can think of me Lao Zheng, I will definitely try my best to help, whether it is your own business or your children's business. ”

"I believe it." Several of them nodded their heads.

"We will never forget your care for us, your affection for us." The father said, and then he looked at the mother. Mother nodded in agreement.

I think my father must have been drunk, and he talked so much. I can't figure out where they got so much to say. They didn't understand us children at all and didn't allow me to leave early. I secretly tugged at the corners of my mother's clothes several times, but my mother didn't see it. You know, Hao Junqi is still waiting for me to play at home.

The day of parting has been set. My grandmother sent me a letter saying that she had got the car. There will be a car to pick us up on the day we go back to Hua'an. But the car could only be parked in Wangwu, five miles away. Everything we had to bring back had to be delivered by wheelbarrow.

Grandpa Hao and Hao Junqi's father promised to push a wheelbarrow each to help us deliver something. However, Grandpa Hao's family only had one wheelbarrow, so he had to borrow one from Zhu Jinshan's family.

This is what I learned from listening to the adults chatting at Hao Junqi's house at dinner the night before I officially left the East Gate.

That night, Grandpa Hao, who never drank too much, drank too much. Father was really drunk. My mother and Hao Junqi's mother have endless things to say. Everyone was very sad.

Hao Junqi and I slipped outside the house to play. It was cold outside. The wind drills into our necks. The moonlight is cold.

I silently followed Hao Junqi to the two jujube trees at the end of the east. In fact, there are four or five jujube trees in a row. These jujube trees are thinner than the two jujube trees at the door, and the dates they produce are smaller, mainly because they grow on higher ground, lack of water, and lack of nutrients.

To the east of the jujube tree is a steep downhill road that extends to a bluestone road that is nearly two meters below the ground of the jujube tree. In the past, the bluestone road was a well shared by the whole village.

One of us sat on a date palm tree. The two jujube trees fork in a very low position, and the branches that stick out diagonally are for us to sit on. Because we often sit here, the rough skin of the jujube tree has been smoothed by us.

Hao Junqi has not spoken. The moonlight falls on us through the cracks in the trees. The cold wind blowing from the fields was cold. It was very quiet.

"It's cold." I broke the silence.

Hao Junqi still didn't speak.

The ancient tomb was facing me. The slightly sloping bluestone tombstone obscures the moonlight, and the front of the grave looks black. Of the two trees on the grave, one had lost all its leaves, and the other had lush dark blue leaves, which now looked black.

"Why don't you speak, Kiki?" I asked directly.

"Brother, you're leaving tomorrow, right?" Hao Junqi finally spoke, her poignant voice hitting my heart like a hammer.

But I couldn't speak.

"Didn't my brother say he wouldn't go back? Didn't my brother say that he wanted to be with Kiki forever? Didn't my brother hook up with Kiki? ”

I don't speak.

"Didn't brother say that he wasn't from the city, and he was from Dongmen like Qiqi?"

I don't speak.

"Didn't brother say that even if your uncle and aunt go back to Hua'an, you won't go back?"

I don't speak.

"Why didn't you speak?"

"I ......"

There was another long silence. In fact, Hao Junqi also knows that in order not to return to Hua'an, I have quarreled with my parents several times. My parents must return to the city, Hua'an is their home, and it is unrealistic for me to stay alone at the East Gate. My grandparents, who lived in Hua'an, also didn't allow me to stay at the East Gate. It was a sure thing for me to return to Hua'an with my parents.

Just when I was arguing with my parents, Hao Junqi also comforted me like this: It's also a good thing for my brother to go back to Hua'an, in that way, I will have a brother in a big city, and I will have the opportunity to go to Hua'an to play and see the world.

This shows that Hao Junqi has already accepted the fact that I will definitely return to Hua'an.

"Now that I think about it, brother, it's still the thin man who has foresight." The air was finally shaken by the sound, and Hao Junqi spoke.

"Oh." I didn't understand what Hao Junqi wanted to say, so I could only say "oh" tentatively.

"Zheng Qihang, Hao Junqi, play games together, you go east, he goes west, you can never be together, you can't be together." Hao Junqi gently rapped the smooth mouth of the thin man. The slow speed of speech, the flat feelings, the more and more mournful.

"Hao Junqi, Zheng Qihang, play together every day, you go north, he goes south, forever separated by a mountain, separated by a mountain." Hao Junqi continued to chant another slippery tongue.

The scene of the Mid-Autumn Festival night game came to my eyes. The thin man is really prescient.

My eyes were moist.

"As soon as my brother returns to the city, there will be more than one mountain, and more than a thousand mountains." Hao Junqi period Ai Ai.

I was speechless for a moment. Hua'an to the East Gate, there is really more than a thousand mountains.

"But, Kiki, I miss no matter how many mountains I can't separate, right? Didn't you say that night you made the crackers? As long as you always miss it, even if you are separated from the world, you still don't give up. I jumped off the jujube tree and walked over to Hao Junqi, and with the help of the faint moonlight, I saw that her face was covered with tears.

I wiped the tears from Hao Junqi's face with two big fingers. "Don't cry, Kiki."

"I didn't cry. Tears can't help but flow. I don't want it to flow, it's still flowing. ”

Hao Junqi made a gesture, and I reached out to help her, "But, it doesn't know, it can't stop my brother from leaving even if it lingers for a few days and nights." ”

I took Hao Junqi in my arms, "I'm sorry, Kiki, I'm sorry." ”

"I don't blame you, brother can't help it, can he?" Hao Junqi leaned on my arms and said.

I nodded desperately.

"Brother doesn't want to go back, does he?"

I nodded desperately.

"I'm just afraid that if my brother returns to Hua'an, I won't see my brother again."

I nodded desperately, but then shook my head. "No, it won't. I'll come back to see Kiki. I subconsciously popped up this sentence, and it was only after this sentence that it became a concept in my mind. yes, I can still come back.

I couldn't help but hug Hao Junqi tightly. "Kiki, I can still come back! I can come back to see you! ”

"When can my brother come to see Kiki?" Hao Junqi didn't have the excitement I did. She left my arms.

"After the New Year. Come after the New Year! ”

"Really?" A poignant rhetorical question.

"If you can't come after the New Year, then you must come during the summer vacation. I will definitely come next summer! ”

"Okay, then."

"Summer vacation will definitely come!"

"Then let's go home." Hao Junqi reached over and held my hand. Her hands were as cold as the night she had beaten the night she had beaten the crackers.

The next day everyone got up early. The grown-ups were busy sorting things out. I'm also busy organizing my stuff. I gave all my school supplies to Hao Junqi.

The parents left a lot of things for Hao Junqi's grandfather. Neither parents brought anything on the stove. The mother gave a few pieces of worn clothes to Hao Junqi's mother. Hao Junqi's mother happily accepted.

Zhu Jinshan's wheelbarrow has been borrowed. Two wheelbarrows are placed at the gate. The adults took things out and tied them to the wheelbarrow.

It's time to leave. Many people gathered at Hao Junqi's doorstep to say goodbye to us. Some people followed us out of the village. Parents told everyone to stay. Some people held their steps and waved at us. But there were several that had to be given another ride. The father did not insist.

A wheelbarrow jumps on a bluestone slab. The sun jumps over our heads.

A few people such as Ri Xiaocai and Xiao Yongfu also came to see them off. The man who was muttering in the thin man's ear didn't come. But I vaguely saw the thin man dodging and following some of the adults back.

Zhu Jinshan, Hao Junqi, Rixiao, Caixiao, Yongfu and a few others trotted at the front of the team. When we were far away, we stopped and waited. When the adults followed, we ran again. We all seem to have forgotten that it was parting.

Walking through the pavilion, across the dirt road sandwiched between the two mountains, the parents stopped again. I heard my father say that there will be a farewell to you for a thousand miles, and the few people who played the most with my father also stayed. They waved to their father.

Zhu Jinshan, the day is small, the wealth is small, and Yongfu They also waved to me.

Hao Junqi's mother and the others returned. She wanted to take Hao Junqi back to the village, but Hao Junqi disagreed, and Hao Junqi had to follow us.

"It's a long way, you can't walk." Hao Junqi's mother said.

"I can move."

"I'd better go back with my mother. It's ten miles away. ”

"I must take my brother to the car."

The father looked at Hao Junqi's mother.

"Then let her go." Mother said.

"Come back, grandpa will push you on a wheelbarrow." Grandpa Hao said.

"Look, grandpa agreed."

A group of six of us continued to walk forward. Crossing the plank bridge, passing through Yongtai Village, and then through Luwan Village, we walked up a mountain road about three meters wide. This road connects with the road outside the mountain. Tractors can drive on this road.

In some sections, the road surface is very smooth, while in others the road surface is uneven and washed by rain, and there are ditches in the middle of the road, and stones in the road surface are protruding.

The mountain road is crooked, with ups and downs. We crossed a big slope. The slope was steep. Father and mother each walked up to Grandpa Hao and Hao Youde to pull the wheelbarrow. I could see they were struggling to get uphill.

Up to the top of the slope, we stopped to rest. Grandpa Hao and Hao Junqi's fathers were sweating on their faces. My feet hurt. Dad has already carried Hao Junqi for a ride.

When going downhill, the parents still walked in front of the wheelbarrow, and instead of pulling the wheelbarrow, they pushed the wheelbarrow backwards to prevent the wheelbarrow from rushing down. Grandpa Hao and Uncle Hao were pulling the handlebars, and the people leaned back, not the people pushing the cart, but the car dragging people.

I was too fast and fell over. Fortunately, he fell on the muddy pavement, and his palms hit the ground, making streaks, but there was no broken skin and blood. When Hao Junqi chased me, I was already up from the ground.

It's a long downhill ride.

Then we can see the road. The road emerges from the mountains to the west, through the fields, through the mud-tiled houses scattered in Wangwu, and into the east.

The car that my grandmother called has not yet arrived. Adults park their wheelbarrows on the side of the road, unload the contents of the cart, and place them on the flat ground on the side of the road. The frame was vacated, and Grandpa Hao and Uncle Hao sat on the frame of one wheelbarrow to rest, and the parents sat on the frame of the other car to rest.

It was a gravel road, and the trees on both sides of the road had grown tall and large, and the leaves had fallen and the branches were covered with dust. The big trucks passed by, raising a dusty and gray road, and it was a long time before they could see the houses on the opposite side, the dry paddy fields, and the small hills at the end of the paddy fields. A thick layer of dust had accumulated on the leaves of the withered yellow weeds along the road gutters, as had a thick layer of dust on the roof tiles of the houses.

I didn't want the car to arrive so early, but it arrived quickly. It's a small black car, like a turtle. Grandma got out of the car. She walked quickly over to me. I stepped back. My grandmother put her arms around me and said, "So big, so big." I timidly called my grandmother.

Uncle Hao helped carry things into the trunk of the car. The trunk was packed. There were some small items that we brought with us in the car.

Hao Junqi and I were reluctant. My father was already in the passenger seat. Mother and grandmother were already in the back seat. They urged me to get in the car several times in a row.

I couldn't help but get in the car. The "clang" of the car door separated Hao Junqi from the outside, and I felt that I was separated from another world.

Hao Junqi knocked on the window pane outside. Grandma rolled the window pane down.

"There's something I gave you in my bag." Hao Junqi burst into tears.

"Yes." It's the doll that I pinched the night I hit the late rice crackers.

"Goodbye." Hao Junqi waved her little hand.

"See you next year."

"I'll wait."

"Close the window." Grandma said.

The windows gradually rise. Hao Junqi's shadow gradually blurred.

The car starts. From the rearview mirror, I saw Grandpa Hao, Uncle Hao and Hao Junqi standing on the side of the wheelbarrow all the time. Hao Junqi's hand became smaller and smaller until it disappeared completely.

I opened my schoolbag, and in addition to the doll that Wanmi pinched, there was also a small thing, and Hao Junqi wrapped it in paper layer after layer. It is a small jade pendant that she wears around her neck every day.

"I'm thinking that the day my brother leaves, I will become a butterfly and stop on my brother's shoulder, or stop on the top of the car my brother is sitting in, and I can be with my brother every day."

Hao Junqi's words rang in my ears. Tears welled up in my eyes.