"Meng Jiayue."

"Huh?"

Ruan Yu licked the candy, and couldn't watch the cartoons playing on the computer anymore, so she looked at Meng Jiayue cautiously and asked, "Are you unhappy?" ”

Meng Jiayue paused as he flipped through the book, he turned his head to look at Ruan Yu, and smiled: "How can you see it?" Am I so obvious? ”

"Yes." Ruan Yu nodded, stopped eating the sugar, puffed out his cheeks and complained: "Don't laugh at me fiercely, and keep a straight face, I'm scared when I look at it!" ”

Meng Jiayue shook his head and laughed when he heard this, turned the book over and covered it on the table, and opened his hand towards Ruan Yu: "Come here." ”

"What are you doing?" Ruan Yu bit the candy and sat down in his arms.

Meng Jiayue touched her hair, was silent for a while, and suddenly asked, "Xiaoyu, do you like chess?" ”

"It's okay!" Ruan Yu said uncertainly, looking up at Meng Jiayue, his fingers boringly picking at the buttons on his clothes, licking the candy in his hand from time to time, and didn't understand why he suddenly asked like this.

"Sorry to scare you. It's just that I finally won a game of chess against my dad, and I lost again. Meng Jiayue pinched Ruan Yu's cheek, leaned into her ear and said affectionately: "Then you will like to play chess in the future." ”

"Why?" Ruan Yu was puzzled, leaned back, looked at Meng Jiayue and asked.

Meng Jiayue thought about it seriously and said, "Because I hope you like it." ”

Hearing this, Ruan Yu covered her mouth and smiled secretly, then nodded and said, "Okay." When the words fell, she put nearly half of the candy that she had eaten to Meng Jiayue's mouth and said, "You eat it too, I can't eat it alone." ”

Meng Jiayue smiled slightly, took a bite of candy a few times, chewed it, and asked, "Do you have any musical instruments you want to learn?" ”

"Huh? Musical instrument? Ruan Yu didn't know why, turned the candy in her hand and began to think about the musical instrument she knew, and she didn't even know that the corners of her mouth were stained with sugar, Meng Jiayue couldn't help laughing when she saw this, and took out a piece of paper from the carton on the table to wipe her clean.

"That's right! What do you want to learn? ”

"This ......" Ruan Yu tilted her head and thought for a long time before shaking her head and saying, "I don't know, but my mother won't let me learn it anyway." ”

"Let's learn the piano! I love listening to piano music. Meng Jiayue made a decision on his own.

"Hmm, but how do you learn? Is it hard to learn compared to calligraphy? Ruan Yu blinked, and there was no objection, she was used to Meng Jiayue helping her make decisions.

Meng Jiayue pinched her nose and said, "You learn calligraphy first, and as for the piano, my mother can play it." ”

"Aunt Chen can play the piano?" Ruan Yu immediately sat up straight and looked at Meng Jiayue, and when he nodded, he immediately said with an amazed face: "It's amazing!" ”

"The piano in the study was my grandfather's, and then it was given to her, and she wanted to teach me when I was a child, but I didn't learn it."

"So you want me to learn?" Ruan Yu asked, pointing to his nose.

"Or else?" Meng Jiayue asked rhetorically.

Ruan Yu puffed out her cheeks and was a little unhappy, and took a bite on the polossal candy, but she didn't bite it off, only grinding off a little piece of it, chewing it in her mouth, and said vaguely: "You have to learn a lot of things." ”

"Good, obedient." Meng Jiayue rubbed her head.

"Okay!"

Ruan Yu lowered her head and agreed, and suddenly remembered the bride in a Chinese dress she saw in the morning, and immediately asked, "Meng Jiayue, do you know what the ancient wedding clothes looked like?" ”

"I don't know, how do you ask about this?" Meng Jiayue laughed.

"I saw it in the community today, and it's in the TV series, but it's from the Republic of China, and I don't know what other dynasties are like." Ruan Yu said and got up and walked to the computer, closed the video, and said while opening the browser, "I want to check it." ”

Meng Jiayue looked at her with a smile half-leaning on the table: "Or go home on Chinese New Year's Eve?" ”

Ruan Yu nodded, handed him the wave candy and replied: "It's Chinese New Year's Eve, and my grandfather called me before and asked when I could go home." ”

"Oh, did you find it?" Meng Jiayue asked in a different topic.

"Found it, many kinds." Ruan Yu slid the mouse and said while looking: "The clothes seem to be different, what I see today is Xiuhe clothes, and there is a Han-style wedding, what is this?" Ah, phoenix crown...... What does this word read? ”

"Phoenix crown."

"Huh?" Ruan Yu looked at Meng Jiayue with an inquiring expression.

Meng Jiayue nodded and asked her, "Then which one do you want to wear in the future?" ”

Ruan Yu blinked, not understanding what Meng Jiayue was asking her for, but she still shook her head and replied, "I don't know." ”

Meng Jiayue looked at her and smiled, no longer bothered, and let her watch it herself.

On the 28th, the atmosphere of the New Year was already very strong, but Ruan Yu's aunt in the lobby suddenly called at noon that day, and after answering the phone, Ruan's mother hurriedly packed up her things, and did not say the reason, anyway, the family hurried back to their hometown.

Because she was in such a hurry, Ruan Yu didn't even have time to say goodbye to Meng Jiayue, and on the way, she fainted again, groggy all the way, and returned to her hometown when it was almost dark.

Grandma Ruan had already prepared a meal and waited, and made a pot of chicken noodles with the noodles she had rolled out and the chicken fried in the big iron pot on the stove. It's a pity that Ruan Yu's stomach was uncomfortable, and he didn't eat much, so he took a few mouthfuls and went back to the house, and fell asleep not long after lying on the bed.

At dawn the next day, Ruan Yu was called up for breakfast, and after eating, Ruan's father drove Grandpa Ruan and Grandma Ruan to City B, saying that he wanted to see the second grandfather, but Ruan's mother couldn't leave because she had to take care of the child, so she didn't go with her.

This walk, until Chinese New Year's Eve Ruan's father drove back, Ruan Yu knew from their conversation that the second grandfather in City B was very sick, before the lobby aunt called to say this, it seems that they have been admitted to the intensive care unit.

Ruan Yu hadn't seen her second grandfather for a few years, because she was far away, and it was troublesome to come back, but when she was a child, her second grandfather bought toys for Ruan Yu, and she still remembered it.

Because of the second grandfather's matter, the adults are all worried, and Ruan's mother only coped with the Chinese New Year's Eve meal and fried a few dishes, and went to sleep without looking much at the Spring Festival Gala in the evening, of course, the money did not remember to send it.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Ruan Yu had just slept at night, and dimly heard a lot of people walking around in the yard, and the sound of car horns coming from outside, and then Ruan's mother entered the house and woke her and Ruan Yue up.

"Get up and get dressed." Ruan's mother threw all the clothes they put on the chair on the bed, Ruan Yue still wanted to lie on the bed, but she directly lifted the quilt and woke up.

"Mom, what's wrong?" Ruan Yu rubbed her eyes, not understanding what was happening.

"Don't ask so much, get up first."

"Oh." Ruan Yu lifted the quilt and sat up, put on her thermal underwear first, and pulled out her red down jacket from the pile of clothes.

"Don't wear this." Ruan's mother saw it, snatched the down jacket and threw it aside.

"I don't have any clothes to wear if I don't wear this." The down jacket is a new dress that Ruan Yu just bought before the Chinese New Year, and when she came back, because she was in a hurry, she didn't bring more clothes, so she only wore this one, and she was careful again and again in the past few days, for fear that she would get dirty and have no clothes to wear.

Ruan's mother looked left and right, turned around and went out for a while, and took another of Ruan Yue's plaid woolen coats to her.

"That's my clothes." Ruan Yue saw it and immediately said dissatisfied.

"You won't die if you wear it, what is yours, can't you borrow your clothes from your sister to wear?" Ruan's mother suddenly yelled angrily, glared at Ruan Yue, and the expression on her face was not good-looking, and the room instantly fell silent.

Ruan Yue was rarely reprimanded by Ruan's mother like this, and immediately turned red, and she lowered her head aggrievedly and buttoned her button and stopped talking.

hurriedly got dressed and went out, and when he got to the courtyard outside, Ruan Yu saw that Uncle Lobby was also here, talking to Ruan's father, and the grandparents had already dressed and were waiting.

Ruan Yu didn't figure out what was going on, so she only followed the adults into the car, and was drowsy along the way, but fortunately she didn't get motion sickness again, and arrived at the house of the second grandfather in City B in the early hours of the morning.

The door of the second grandfather's house was open, and many relatives came inside, Ruan Yu didn't know them, and the room was crowded, some people were talking, and some people were crying.

Ruan Yu didn't feel sleepy at all, she kept her eyes open until dawn, people came and went in the house, and even the meal was hurriedly eaten in the restaurant after the meal, and in the afternoon, Ruan Yu followed the adults back to her hometown by car.

The second grandfather's house in his hometown has not been inhabited for a long time, the locks on the doors have rusted, the house is covered with cobwebs, and a thick layer of dust has accumulated on the tables and chairs on the ground. The adults packed up the hall overnight and parked the coffin, and hung the portrait of the second grandfather on the wall facing the door of the hall.

On the day of the burial, Ruan Yu was given a white hat with a piece of red cloth sewn on the top, which was a style only worn by children.

Ruan Yu followed the crowd and saw that a pit had been dug in the crops of his hometown, and many people came over carrying a black coffin, and then put it into the pit little by little. Then the rope was removed, the thick wooden stick that carried the coffin was thrown away, and the person who carried the coffin was replaced with an iron lift.

The second grandmother fell to the ground crying, the aunts in the hall couldn't pull up, Ruan Yu watched from afar, turned her head to look at the coffin with a trembling sound, the soil had accumulated in the pit, and gradually submerged the coffin, Ruan Yu felt a suffocation in her chest, and she almost couldn't breathe.

"Meng Jiayue." Ruan Yu read silently, turned around and ran away.

The wheat seedlings in the field did not grow much taller, and the snow that fell a few days ago had almost melted, Ruan Yu sat on the ground, looked at the crowd in the distance, and pulled out the wheat seedlings in the field that I don't know who they were, and dragged them for a while.

When I returned to City A, it was already the day before the Lantern Festival, Ruan Yue had started school early, and then took the Lantern Festival holiday.

As soon as I entered the community, I met Aunt Chen and Meng Jiayue, and Ruan's mother opened the car window and said a few words to Aunt Chen. Ruan Yu sat in the back seat, although she was also by the window, but not facing Meng Jiayue's window, she looked at Meng Jiayue through the glass, wanted to speak but didn't know what to say, and when she was hesitating, Ruan's father had already driven away again.