An old town, a familiar street, a rag hanging in front of the gate is fluttering with the breeze, and a traditional Chinese medicine character is randomly written on it.

This is my home, the place where I used to live.

The freshly pasted tiles looked so glorious, not as mottled as when he grew up, and my father sat in a wheelchair, looking at the brand-new house, showing a hint of meaningless smile.

"It would be great if your sister-in-law could also see Ah Shui grow up." After his father finished speaking, he laughed self-deprecatingly, shook his head, and sighed again.

"Brother, don't think too much." My aunt stood behind her father and said comfortingly.

"Dad! Aunt?! I shouted at them.

"Is Tianming back?" Father asked, looking at the end of the street.

I was standing across from my father and aunt, but they couldn't see me, and the excitement of the face I had been thinking about for a long time was vanished in an instant.

It turns out that all this is a fantasy, or a repetition of the past.

"He said he would be back today," the aunt also followed her father's gaze, touched her slightly bulging belly, and showed a happy look on her face, "Tianming said that he would name the child in his belly Yanran." ”

"Yanran?" The father was stunned, "How does he know if it's a boy or a girl?" ”

My aunt said helplessly: "Don't you know who Tianming is, it's very easy for him to want to know this." ”

"Yes," the father nodded, "he knows it's a girl, what's his reaction?" ”

At that time, the society was still relatively feudal, and my father was worried that Master would have any prejudice against the child in my aunt's womb.

"How can he react," said the aunt, "and let alone how happy he is when he knows it's a girl, and when he comes back, you have to tell him, don't be used to the child's birth, it's not good." ”

"In short, Yanran is a good name, Yanran smiled, Tianming may hope that she will be happy for the rest of her life."

My father withdrew his eyes, and at this time, when I was still a child, I ran to my father's side, hugged my father's thigh, rubbed my little face constantly, and said in a milky voice: "Dad, why don't you run with me!" How good it is to run! My aunt said that I can walk in 10 months, and now I can run much faster than other children. ”

I asked two questions in one go, but my father only answered the last question: "Yes, if you want, run more in the future, Dad believes that you will be able to become an athlete!" ”

I blinked, with a look of yearning: "I'm going to be a World Champion!" ”

"Then run hard!"

A voice came from behind me, and I quickly turned around to see that Master was carrying a bag of rice and was walking towards my father: "Brother, Lily, I'm back. ”

At this time, the master does not seem to be as serious as he will be in the future, exuding the vitality of a young man, looking particularly handsome, he put the rice in his hand into the hands of his aunt, who took the rice and turned around to enter the house, and the master lowered down and hugged me, and said dotingly: "Xiao Ah Shui, do you miss your uncle?" ”

I kissed Master the face, ignoring how much his stubble hurt my little face: "Yes! Uncle, can you teach me to draw today? ”

Master used to be a well-known sculptor, and when I was a child, he taught me all my paintings, and I won the first place in school several times. I couldn't help but laugh when I thought of this.

My uncle thought for a moment and asked, "Do you like to draw again?" ”

"Hmmm! I'm going to draw a lot of things, big tree! Birdie! Sun! I also want to draw my parents, aunts, and uncles...... I also want to draw a mother. ”

When I said that I was drawing my mother, there was a look of amazement on my little face, and my uncle and my father on the side also turned slightly heavy when they heard it.

"So you want to be a painter in the future?" Uncle asked.

"I want to ...... too"

"You want to be an athlete and a painter?"

When I was a child, I didn't know how to answer this question, so I struggled for a long time, and finally said, "yes, I want to be a lot." ”

"Is there anything you'd like to be the most?"

Standing on the sidelines, I laughed, I wanted to be a painter when I was a child, and I think he would definitely answer Master like this.

"Think about it," I lowered my little head when I was a child, as if I was very distressed, but soon, a golden light flashed in his eyes, and he said an answer that I never expected, "I want to be a big hero!" Ultraman and Huluwa like that! ”

"Hero......" The uncle was silent suddenly, he looked up at the sky, then at the basement of the new house, and then looked at his father, "Heroes are not so easy to be, being a hero has to pay a lot of costs, you have to lose a lot of things, it may be your most precious thing, and it may be the person you love the most." ”

"The most precious thing? Someone you love the most? I touched my head, "Including your father and uncle?" ”

"Possibly."

"Then I'm not a hero! I want my aunt and dad to be with me all the time! I shouted squeamishly, hugging my uncle's shoulders as if he were going to leave me at any moment.

"Ah Shui," the father said loudly, "being a hero, although you will lose, but more than you will gain." ”

"Got it?" When I was a child, I pulled my little face out of my uncle's arms and widened my eyes, "Toys and delicious food?" ”

The father laughed: "Of course not. ”

"What's so good about that."

"You will get the most precious thing in your life, that is, a sense of justice, you will have a heart that can distinguish between good and evil, you can do things for the benefit of the whole of humanity, maybe you will lose us, but you will save more people," the father said, suddenly stopped his voice, choked up, and said, "However, I still hope that you can live this life in peace." ”

"Let's go! Come into the house and I'll teach you how to draw! "My uncle suddenly carried me into the new house, took out my crumpled homework book from my school bag, sharpened my pencil, held my little hand, and taught me to draw stroke by stroke, while my father sat outside, quietly watching us.

The sun was shining on my father's face, and it looked extremely warm, and I had never seen him have such an expression.

"Ah Shui, if one day in the future, when the burden must fall on your shoulders, you must not be sad because of our departure."

"Those people or things that make you sad and make you cry will become a ladder for you to become stronger."

"And we're going to watch you all the time, no matter where we are or how you're growing."

I looked at my father's face, suddenly figured out something, walked over quietly, sat on the stone pier next to my father, held my chin in both hands, and sat beside my father like this, enjoying the warmth of the sun and enjoying the tranquility of this moment.