The twelfth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar.

The first day after Grandpa's funeral.

It was raining.

The crackling of raindrops falling on the leaves was noisy.

Meng Shi ran barefoot on the mountain road, the rain hit his body, but he didn't feel a trace of coolness, but felt hotter, his feet stepped on the sharp stones, and he didn't feel a little pain, he kept running and running, the mountain road seemed to have no end, and he couldn't tell whether the road was up or down, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and finally even the road was blurred.

"Knock, knock, knock"

"Squeak" is the sound of the door being pushed open.

Meng Shi woke up and was soaked with sweat.

It was Sister Lin who came in. She sat down on the edge of Meng Shi's bed, put her hand on his forehead and touched it, and then compared it on her own forehead.

In the past few days, Meng Shi has been suffering from a fever, which is the flu in June.

Sister Lin bought some medicine, and Meng Shi took it for two days but it didn't work.

"Find a white shirt." Meng Shi sat up and said to Sister Lin naturally.

Sister Lin found a pair of black slacks and handed them to Meng Shi.

Then he held a white shirt in one hand and a tissue in the other hand to wipe his sweat, "Look at your sweat." ”

Before Meng Shi's parents divorced, his father went out to work, and his mother worked as a teacher in a primary school in the town.

So before he went to elementary school, it can be said that Sister Lin brought him up.

In Meng Shi's childhood, Sister Lin played the role of an older sister and half a mother.

After his parents divorced, Meng Shi followed him to finish primary school and then transferred to the middle school in Yangjiang, and his mother was also transferred to Yangjiang Experimental Primary School.

In those years, Meng Shi came to live here during the summer vacation, and Brother Nian, who was much older than him, was willing to take him to play, which was also the result of Sister Lin's thousands of instructions.

After all, children are willing to play with people who are older than him, but adults are not willing to play with children.

"I'll wipe your back and take you to get an injection."

Sister Lin pulled Meng Shi to the bathroom on the second floor.

Meng Shi felt that his hands and feet were a little soft, but he did not reach the point of going for injections, and he had a shadow in his heart about injections.

"Where's the fish?" Meng Shi endured the itch in his throat and changed the subject.

Chen Ziyu is the eldest daughter of Sister Lin, and Meng Shi gave her a nickname called Xiaoyu, referred to as fish.

Because it is smooth, the whole family is called so.

A few days ago, Grandpa's ceremony, the fish didn't come to participate, and it wasn't until yesterday's funeral that Sister Lin went to pick it up.

At that time, Meng Shi had a fever and a dizzy head, and the entire funeral ceremony was complicated and solemn under the auspices of Liangzai Grandpa, and Meng Shi needed to do a lot of things, so the two did not speak.

"The fish went back last night, and she said that her grandmother couldn't take good care of her sister."

"I haven't even seen the bridge."

Sister Lin's youngest daughter is five years old this year, her name is Chen Shuqiao, and Meng Shi called her Qiao after she found out.

Qiao had the same flu as Meng Shi, and Sister Lin planned to hug her.

But after Liangzai Ah Gong found out, he said that the sky on the mountain was cloudy and windy, which was not good for the child's health.

"Your grandfather won't mind, besides, ceremonial worship, how can a child's body be important."

Sister Lin originally insisted, but Liangzai's grandfather persuaded her with a word.

The old man keeps the old rules, but he is not pedantic, and his heart is as open-minded as Grandpa.

"You won't come to Grandpa after you go to high school, plus you've been to Sijiu City for more than two years, where can you see it, don't say you haven't seen the bridge, the fish will forget you."

Sister Lin's words were very dissatisfied with Meng Shi.

"It's my brain that broke down in those years, I was wrong, but the fish can't forget me, we have a good relationship."

Meng Shi decisively admitted his mistake.

But it is impossible to say that he has a bad relationship with the fish.

"She's not good with anyone now, you say one word about her, and she can give you three words."

Sister Lin had a headache for her eldest daughter in her words.

"It's the rebellious period, and she'll be on the first year of junior high school after the summer vacation, right? Just enroll her in two cram schools so that she doesn't have time to think nonsense. ”

Meng Shi thought of Gu Xiaoxi calling her uncle brother.

Well, it's not okay to be so skinny.

"Oh, you're such a good uncle, I'll tell her this, don't think about it."

Sister Lin glanced back at Meng Shi.

"Ahem."

Meng Shi couldn't hold back and coughed twice, there was no phlegm, just itching.

Seeing Meng Shi's face flushed, Sister Lin realized that he was changing the topic.

"You're still afraid of injections." Sister Lin said helplessly.

The only time Meng Shi went to the village clinic for injections was when he was tricked by Sister Lin.

When the village doctor took out the syringe, Meng Shi's legs began to tremble.

Waiting for the doctor, flicking the needle, pressing the syringe to exhaust the air, Meng Shi watched the medicine inside flow out with the needle A few drops, he pulled his legs and ran faster than a rabbit.

Then Sister Lin chased desperately behind, shouting while chasing, asking Meng Shi to put on the half-taken pants first.

Thinking of this, Sister Lin was angry and funny.

At that time, she was still a girl, and now in a blink of an eye, her youngest daughter is as old as Meng Shi at that time.

Sister Lin angrily stuffed the white shirt into Meng Shi's hand, and then glared at him fiercely.

Meng Shi didn't know what was wrong with her, so he grinned at her.

Sister Lin has no way to deal with this younger brother, and she hasn't seen her for a few years, but now when she meets and gets along for a few days, she feels closer than before.

When he was a child, he was raised as half a son, and it is estimated that he was owed in his previous life.

"I'm going to boil pot porridge, if you're not good today, I'll go to Brother Delan to get you Chinese medicine."

When Meng Shi heard the Chinese medicine, his skull hurt even more.

It's really bitter, even if you finish drinking it and immediately stuff a spoonful of white sugar into your mouth, it's still bitter.

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Meng Shi was sweating and went to the bathroom to take a warm shower.

When I went downstairs, my phone rang.

Meng Shi glanced at the caller ID and picked it up, "I thought you were dead." ”

"Not dead yet, not dead yet." Dad is still so inexplicably optimistic, and he is not angry at all about Meng Shi's attitude, "Listen to your brother-in-law, you cried the day your grandfather left." ”

"Well, that's what you're calling for?" Meng Shi is indeed in tears, there is nothing to deny, this is not ashamed.

"Will you cry when I die?" Daddy asked on the other end of the phone.

When Meng Shi was a child, he fantasized that his father, who was not at home all the year round, was a soldier to defend his family and the country, or a secret agent or superhero.

But according to Meng Shi's understanding, he is a wandering singer, who traveled south and north at first, and now wanders in the northwest area.

My mother said that he went out to work, which really promoted him.

People who go out to work want to make their homes better, and people like him love only himself.

Although he and his second uncle, who is a farmer, are brothers, they seem to be separated by an era.

The country has progressed too fast during that time.

This kind of spiritual and material development is vividly reflected between Grandpa's eldest son and youngest son.

"You'd better die later." Faced with his question, Meng Shi's tone was very flat.

"Haha, it looks like you still care about me." Dad was always inexplicably optimistic.

"You let me take a break." Meng Shi said.

Attending a funeral is a very tiring thing, people are tired, and hearts are tired.

Meng Shi closed his eyes now, as if he could still hear the chant of Master Liangzai ringing in his ears, and then the sackcloth, grass rings, white hats, the money flowing in the wind all the way, and the mighty funeral procession.

Grandpa is ninety-one, and he died without illness, this is a full life.

There are four daughters and three sons, all of whom are scattered, and it is a blessing.

Before his death, he had been managing the ancestral hall and the nursing home, and when the people in the village mentioned him, they had to say that he was kind to the public and kind, which is called the end of the whole and the end of the good.

Full life, full blessing, full life, this is joy and mourning.

According to the customs of the village, when a person like Grandpa goes out for a funeral, men over 50 years old in the village will go out when the funeral procession passes by, and then go all the way to the foot of the tomb mountain.

Meng Shi described the scene of Grandpa's funeral on the phone, and then said: "You shouldn't have this scene, so if you die next month, I guess you will be able to relieve yourself and give you linen and filial piety." ”

Regarding Meng Shi's words that he would die next month, Dad was not angry, and laughed: "Your personality is really like me." ”

After he finished speaking, he was silent for a while, and then said, "Don't go out to drift, stay with your mother more." ”

It makes sense for anyone to say this, but it's kind of hilarious when it comes out of his mouth.

Meng Shiyi was unhappy, and he was not interested in squeezing him again, and said, "If it's okay, so be it." ”

"Wait a minute!" Hearing that Meng Shi was about to hang up the phone, he hurriedly stopped him, and then said, "I know about your second uncle, don't worry about it, I will reason with him." ”

"Thank you so much."

Meng Shi was sincere in saying this.

He didn't want to care about this in the first place.

But in the past few days, he has really been annoyed to death by the second aunt who is a little smart, but not very smart after all.

If there was no phone call, Meng Shi would have been annoyed, and in the end, everyone's faces would not look good.