(a)

Child, grandpa didn't leave, he just became a star in the sky.

——Excerpt from "Going: The Story of the Starry Sky" by Grandpa Xu.

In 2010, a rental house in Xinghai City.

The sun rises over the horizon. Xu Xingkai is still playing games with his grandfather in his sleep.

"Xiao Kai, is it okay for grandpa to teach you to ride a bicycle?"

"Okay."

"Xiao Kai, ride slowly, don't fall."

"Grandpa, when I grow up, I'm going to buy you a big truck."

"Hahaha, okay, Xiao Kai is sensible."

A ray of sunlight in the early morning shined through the window through the broken curtain and shone on Xu Xingkai's face. A giggle and a little drooling from the corners of his mouth.

In the dream, I lived in childhood, and when I woke up, it was the world of adults.

"Jingle bells... Jingle Bell" alarm clock went off, shattering his sweet dreams. I opened my eyes, wiped the saliva from the corners of my mouth on the pillow and got up.

"Huh?" There was no water at all from the faucet.

He turned off the faucet, how could there be no water, and the water and electricity bills were paid? All of a sudden, the fire came, and immediately opened the door to go to the landlord theory.

There was a list posted on the door, probably because I didn't usually pay attention to it. This month's rent is due, water and electricity have been stopped, please pay the rent in time. Tear off this list, scratch your scalp with your hands, have no money to pay rent, and are moving out tonight.

Suddenly, the mobile phone rang, it was the takeaway order he was going to take today, and there were hundreds of large and small orders.

Either way, it's important to make money!

Grab the car keys from the small table next to the bed, put them in your pocket, lock the door, ride the small tram, and start the day's work......

"Your takeaway has arrived, please give a five-star review."

He repeated this sentence countless times, and arriving on time was an affirmation from the customer. No matter the wind, rain, thunder and lightning, he will rush to you as fast as possible.

It was at this time that an accident happened.

"Oops, how do you drive, look, look, the car scratched you!"

This car owner is very angry, and his vicious eyes are eager to eat you immediately!

Xu Xingkai was at a loss all of a sudden, and finally completed a hundred orders, but now it was in vain.

In the end, after mediation between the two parties, he still lost the money and is now penniless.

He stood still, stunned.

"Ding-dong." Suddenly, the phone rang, and another bad news came.

This is a message from an unfamiliar number: "Hello, XXX's family, please go to XXX Hospital and bury the funeral."

This was another thunderbolt from the blue, and Xu Xingkai's heart completely collapsed.

The hand grasped the phone very hard, the green tendons burst out, the tears couldn't stop dripping on the screen, and the whole body was trembling.

Finally, shouted:

"Grandpa, I'm sorry!"

Only this sentence can vent his pain at this time.

When he arrived at the hospital, he lay on his stomach beside his grandfather's body and wept bitterly.

Then

"Ding-dong." The mobile phone rang, this is another order message, but at this time, Xu Xingkai has no energy to work, and he is a grandfather on the one hand, and he is in a hurry to use the money. He glanced at the order and found that the delivery location was actually his grandfather's house, and he wanted to deliver a three-tier cake or a designated delivery person.

According to the hospital's description, my grandfather died of a heart attack two days ago, but this order has only been sent out now.

Since Xu Xingkai came out to work hard, he has less and less time to go back to visit his grandfather. Now, hey~

He took the order, rode a small tram to the cake shop to pick up the food, and after picking up the food, he drove in the direction of his grandfather's house.

When I arrived here, it was already 8 p.m., it was light under the solar street lamps, and it was dark all around, and my grandfather's house was also torn down by the cart of the demolition team, leaving it in ruins.

He cried and cried, "Grandpa, are you okay, your grandson has come back to see you, where are you!" ”

The surrounding area was silent, and it became a demolition area, and the residents moved away.

Putting the cake he was carrying on the ground, he rummaged through the ruins and searched for it, where he and his grandfather were buried in their happiest times.

What was found was a crushed, deformed bicycle and a letter stained in mud.

Opening the letter, it reads:

"Xiao Kai, is it okay to live alone? I haven't come back to see my grandfather for a few days, do you remember the little tree in front of the door, it has grown into a big tree, and it can already shelter from the wind and rain.

Grandpa is leaving, and he can't accompany you to start a family anymore. Thank you for being in my life in my old age and for fulfilling my dream of being a grandfather. Grandpa has no culture, can't give you the best education, can't teach you to study well, can only teach you to ride a bicycle, many things can't help you, I hope you don't blame grandpa.

Xiao Kai, today is your birthday, and it is also the day I met you, and this cake is the only gift that grandpa can leave you.

Child, grandpa didn't leave, he just became a star in the sky. - Grandpa, love you forever. ”

After reading it, Xu Xingkai shed a tear, and after putting away the letter, he picked up the cake on the ground and rode away on the small tram.

(b)

Xu Xingkai came to a car dealership that recycles second-hand electric vehicles and took this small tram that accompanied him through ups and downs.

"Boss, how much can this car cost?"

The boss took a look at the body, it can already be regarded as a defective product, and it is old, and some places are painted and bursting, but the parts can still be used and sold, and he touched his face full of slag, frowned and said:

"Young man, if you don't do this, you can't sell this car, I'm a second-hand car dealership, what I do is to recycle and resell, I'll charge you money for parts, a fixed price of 200 yuan, what do you think?"

He didn't want to raise the price a little more, he just wanted to think about how much he could, so that his grandfather could leave this world in style.

"Okay, get the money."

"Okay, do you want WeChat or cash?"

"Cash."

"It's 200 yuan, please put it away."

Xu Xingkai took the money, folded it and put it in his small bag, and after taking one last look at the old friend's car before leaving, he went to a nearby funeral home.

When he walked into the funeral home, he was in a heavy and uneasy mood, and the money left over from his takeaway plus the money he had just used as a car did not add up to more than 1,000 yuan, and he couldn't afford the high cost of the funeral home.

At this time, a waiter walked over.

"Please, is there anything I can do to help you?"

He stammered, and replied:

"Hmm...... That one...... How much does a funeral cost? ”

The waiter smiled and replied: "If you want to do something simpler, the minimum is 2,000 yuan, and if you want to be particularly grand, you can choose more than 5,000 yuan." ”

He nodded, looked at the ground, and said, "Well, okay, help me hold a funeral for 5,000 yuan." ”

"Well, yes sir, please leave your contact information and location and help you arrange it immediately. Is it now sir? ”

"The phone number is XXXX, the location is XXXX Hospital, I will come back and settle it for you later, is it okay?"

"Totally OK sir, I'll arrange it for you right away, you're ......"

Before the waiter's voice fell, Xu Xingkai left in a hurry.

Coming out of the funeral home, he walked down the street wearing a coat and hat with his head down, his face full of sadness, sighing. In the end, he stopped at the entrance of an alley.

After standing there clenching his fist for a few seconds, he released his fist and entered the alley with only a flickering light.

It turned out that in this alley lived the good brother who my grandfather had helped when he was young, and he had no choice but to pull down his face and beg him.

He lent a large amount of money, paid off the hospital fees, paid the funeral home fees, and his grandfather's body was cremated, and a beautiful funeral was held, accompanying his grandfather to the last part of his life.