Wang Chenglong didn't speak, he stood quietly, and the younger brother and Guisheng hadn't yet adapted to the situation that there was suddenly one more person. The woman dragged Wang Defa up, signaled that it was time to go, and looked at Wang Chenglong in front of her.

The four of them walked towards Wang Chenglong.

"Jackie Chan, this is your dad!"

"I know!"

Wang Defa looked at the boss, he was speechless for a while, he understood this child, when he was taken away by the police, the boss already had a memory, the last time he went back to send the old father to mourn, the child looked at it again, Wang Chenglong understood everything that happened. The two men looked at each other for a few seconds, and without saying a word, they slowly left the prison gate.

"Let's go to the vegetable market in the county town to buy some vegetables and meat, and go back today to cook something delicious, and the dolls are also hungry." The woman said.

"Okay." Wang Defa thought in his heart, if he could delay a little more time outside, he would delay a little more. I went back early, and the villagers saw it, do you think this is a happy thing or a sad thing?

Wang Chenglong followed alone, the woman held Wang Guisheng, followed by Brother Lai and Wang Defa, and the five of them walked like this.

The woman cut a large piece of meat and bought some vegetables. Wang Defa felt that he was like air in front of them, and he finally couldn't help it.

"It's still early, why don't we take Wang Chenglong to Xinhua Bookstore to see if she has any books to buy." Wang Defa said nonoly.

The woman was stunned for a moment, and then reacted.

"Okay, it's just that she's clamoring to buy some extracurricular books recently, so let's go and watch and buy them today."

"Jackie Chan, let's go to Xinhua Bookstore later, you can see what books you need, just pick them yourself, this time while picking up your father, we still have a chance to go to the county, and there may be fewer and fewer opportunities in the future."

"Can I buy a few more copies?" Wang Chenglong has been talking about the most words since the morning.

"Yes, you can buy it if you like, don't buy some idle books. Anyway, this idea was proposed by your father, and if he agrees, you can buy it with confidence. "The woman knows that as a father, Wang Defa also wants to win over this child who is a little far away from herself, how to win over, then do what he likes, Wang Chenglong likes books, and books are the best bridge.

If you don't say it's the county, the Xinhua bookstore is bright, and there are all kinds of books, and Wang Chenglong knows a lot of words in a semester, and all those with pinyin annotations can be read. She looked at the books in the lower grades, and she couldn't put them down when she held them in her hands. In the end, at the urging of the woman, I picked two books, one is "The Legend of the Anti-Japanese Heroes" with pinyin, and the other is "Xinhua Dictionary". She still has several books she wants to buy, but she feels that it is not good to buy too many at a time, although her mother promised to buy whatever she wants, but after all, the books in Xinhua Bookstore are not cheap.

Wang Chenglong's book was bought, and on the way home for five people, the woman bought five sweet potatoes nearby, one for each person, and they could eat when they were hungry while sitting in the car.

After all, he still embarked on the road home that Wang Defa reluctantly embarked on. The tricycle shook rhythmically, Wang Defa looked up at the sun, estimated the time, and when he got home, it was estimated that it was afternoon, and if the field was not completely busy, it was estimated that there were many people basking in the sun at the intersection. Wang Defa thought about going home from the back of the village, the road is more remote and there are fewer people, but what about when he goes home? Will you never go out? Will you never see anyone?

Wang Defa's woman didn't say anything, and she understood it like a mirror in her heart. She can't persuade anything anymore, the children are also in front of her, if Wang Defa can't pass this psychological level, no one can help him.

The more I thought about things, the faster this time passed, and in the cloak of the tricycle, there were people who got on and off along the way, and after passing the village in front, we arrived at the entrance of the town. An old national highway runs through the middle of the town, and along this road, it doesn't take long for the whole town to know what happened.

Wang Defa didn't want to go off the rails, he would have to see people sooner or later, so why be afraid. When hitchhiking, the tricycle is concentrated in the northernmost part of the town waiting for the people in the upper county, and when they come back, they will drive all the way to the southernmost part of the town for convenience. Wang Defa's family sat until the entrance of their alley before jumping off the tricycle one by one.

After five years of leaving, stepping on this familiar street again, Wang Defa's tears of excitement were swirling, back, back. The familiar street has become unfamiliar, and new houses are emerging on both sides of the road, and for a while he can't tell where the alley of his house is.

The warm sun in the afternoon made many people gather at the intersection to bask in the sun, some playing chess, playing bulls, bragging, and smoking dry cigarettes. When the tricycle stopped, the people at the entrance of the alley watched as the woman Wang Defa jumped out of the basket with three children and a man. Everyone thought it was a woman who went to visit the prison and didn't care much. When Wang Defa jumped down, there was finally someone in the crowd who understood.

"Ahh

"Look, look, I've been in prison for five years, and I'm out!"

"It's true, you can't recognize it if you don't say it, it's changed, and it's getting older than before."

"This bad cowardly man, in the past five years, he has miserably beaten the women of his family."

"Come back this time, see if you dare to dig up your ancestors."

Wang Defa crossed the road with the woman and the three children, this road made Wang Defa blush, all the people who saw Wang Defa were as if they had seen a strange thing, walking, not leaving, swallowing melon seeds, not swallowing, playing chess, not playing, lifting the bull, and putting down the cards, all looking at this originally familiar person who could not be familiar anymore, as if he had not known him at all before, full of curiosity.

Wang Defa put his hands behind his back, his head down as he walked, he heard some of the words he heard, some he didn't, but he could feel that he was like an alien species, being regarded as a rare object.

Someone finally broke the embarrassing silence, it was the old yin and yang sitting on his folding stool, five years have passed, the old yin and yang have been so old that people look like they are about to crumble, there is no tooth left in the mouth, and when he saw Wang Defa walking up to him, he said: "Just come back!" ”

As soon as he said this, everyone else suddenly eased up.

"It's back!"

"It's good to be back."

"Your woman is really amazing, it's good to come back"

From the mouth of the alley to Wang Defa's house, it will only take six minutes at most, Wang Defa has no face to say anything, and it is not a matter of returning to his hometown and honoring his ancestors, and his answer to all the people's greetings is the words "back".

Among the three children, only Wang Chenglong felt that this was a shame for her, and followed her mother with her head down and her face pulled.

When he arrived at the door, Wang Defa stopped. His elderly mother was sitting on the threshold of the gate with a stick, and the cataracts were so severe that she couldn't open her eyes, and she could only see her eyes turning in through her eyelids and music, as if she was looking for Wang Defa's direction.

Wang Defa was in prison, and the woman didn't tell her old woman, but the old woman and her son were still heart-to-heart, and in the past five years, she seemed to have lost something, as long as the sun was warm, she waited on the threshold. Wang Defa was released from prison today, and the woman didn't tell her old woman, but the old woman seemed to have a sense, sitting at the door and waiting for her son to come back, as if she was waiting for a lost thing to come back by herself.

Wang Defa walked to the door and knelt in front of the old mother with a puff. The old man tried to hold the stick with one hand, freed the other hand, and groped Wang Defa's face in the air, and after touching it for a long time, Wang Defa stuffed his head into her arms. The rough, loose-skinned hand held Wang Defa tightly in his arms, touching his face constantly, muttering something in his mouth, but he didn't say it, only his lips kept squirming.

Soon there were many neighbors gathered at the door of Wang Defa's house, and in Wang Defa's eyes, many familiar faces had turned pale, and there were many unrecognizable faces. Children born in recent years, four or five years old, can already play soy sauce, Wang Defa doesn't know anyone, when he left, maybe they weren't born yet, he didn't know who was from who's house, and it was reasonable to be right.

Under everyone's gaze, Wang Defa picked up the old mother and slowly entered the door. The dolls were also tired when they got home, and they scrambled to climb up the kang. The woman put the meat and vegetables she bought in the kitchen opposite, and then went into the house and asked Wang Defa to watch the child, and she was ready to cook.

After Wang Defa helped his elderly mother to sit down, he saw a photo of his deceased father on the table in the middle of the room. On weekdays, the photo is covered in a black cloth, and the elephant in the incense burner next to it looks like it has fallen to ashes. Wang Defa walked in and lifted the black cloth, and his father's voice and smile appeared in front of his eyes. Wang Defa knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times, then got up and put the lit incense into the incense burner.

Walking in from the mouth of the alley, Wang Defa looked at the surrounding neighborhoods, and the houses were more beautiful than the others, and at this moment, sitting in these dilapidated houses in his own house, Wang Defa felt a sour feeling in his heart. In the past five years, how has the life of other people's families changed, and then look at the situation of their own family, when everyone is trying to change the status quo, and the house is more beautiful than the other, Wang Defa's family has not changed in the slightest, and he can't do anything.

The woman's hands are very sharp, and there is not much effort, and a simple meal of noodles is served. In the past five years, Wang Defa once imagined that after he came out, this meal was not happiness, nor reunion, after all, the old father left during his imprisonment, and there was no one family. This meal, at best, can be regarded as an end to the past.