November 11th.

Jiang Wanning put the gift box in the hole in the table and played with it over and over for a long time.

She came very early today, just to be the first to say happy birthday to Gu Shanxu.

But the early self-study began, but he never came.

I had to push things into the depths of the table hole, my eyes fixed on the textbook, but I couldn't help but think wildly in my heart.

Did you have a fever so you didn't come?

But if he had a fever, Lin Xisheng, who couldn't hide it, would have said it a long time ago.

And today Lin Xisheng is inexplicably quiet, not at all like his usual energetic appearance.

"Be louder! Didn't you eat, did you endorse it to me? Or did I get into college because I was going to school? Dead, no energy! ”

Director Zhong patrolled to their class, and when he heard the occasional recitation, he became angry, and knocked on the table a few times with a wooden stick, trying to make them feel more energetic.

Jiang Wanning shook her head and forcibly allowed herself to concentrate.

——

Gu Shanxu kept his eyes open until half past nine, and the song of running exercise was playing on the radio outside.

He didn't go to the classroom, he just stayed in the dormitory.

It is estimated that the little table mate is now running out of breath, and maybe he will pretend to open his shoelaces and leave the team to tie his shoes.

He sat up from the bed with a carp, changed into his usual clothes, and prepared to leave the school over the wall.

Today is his birthday and his mother's death day.

Because of his mother's departure, he no longer dared to celebrate his birthday.

Qing'an Cemetery.

Gu Shanxu went to the flower shop as usual to buy her mother's favorite daisy bouquet, as well as her favorite red date cake and peach blossom cake, and bought some cooked food by the way.

When everything was ready, he laid everything out on the platform in front of the tombstone.

The cemetery is very quiet, the students are in class at this point, and the adults are also at work, not to mention that it is not a Qingming Festival, so naturally few people will come to visit their deceased relatives.

There is no photo on the tombstone, but three words are engraved: Yu Chuqin.

He poured milk tea into a wine glass, his hands shaking, but he still had a smile on his face.

"Good afternoon, I bought you red bean milk tea from Xilinjia today."

"Every time I pour milk tea into a wine glass, I feel funny, you say you like milk tea, let me not pour you wine after I die, saying that the wine is smelly and bitter and not good at all."

"Before I was born, Gu Lei's dog didn't let you drink milk tea, saying that this was something that couldn't be put on the table, only naïve children who didn't know anything would drink it, now it's okay, I'm rich, tell me whatever you want to drink in the future, and I'll buy it for you."

"Mom, I have someone I like, or her, the little girl I told you about before, I found her."

He leaned against the tombstone as if he were talking to an old friend, chattering about what had happened recently.

"This time, I won't lose her again."

After saying this, he was silent for a long time, took out his mobile phone and looked at the time.

It's half past twelve, and it's time to eat.

"Mom, I'll come to see you in the afternoon, and when the time comes, I'll give you a new flavor of milk tea."

Gu Shanxu simply wiped the platform under the tombstone with a paper towel, it was very clean, and it should be cleaned every day by the people on duty here.

After a bow, he left.

After he left, a young man dressed in black came out of the duty room, yawned, and stretched.

Lazily put his hands in his pockets, and very casually inspected all the way down from the first column of tombstones.

......

Gu Shanxu ate casually at a fast food restaurant, and found a famous milk tea shop to buy milk tea.

When he returned to the cemetery again, he saw a man squatting in front of the tombstone, sneaky.

He quietly approached, standing behind the man, trying to see what he was doing.

The man sat cross-legged on the ground, holding milk tea in his left hand and a big chicken leg in his right hand, eating with relish.

"Alas, rich people just know how to play, and come to see an empty tombstone every year!"

"Hey, hey, hey, but it's not bad, I can still rub a delicious meal with it."

He took a sip of milk tea and said intoxicatedly: "Ah, it is worthy of being milk tea in more than 30 years, it is fragrant, not greasy at all!" ”

"And this pig's head meat, fragrant but not greasy!"

The more Gu Shanxu listened, the more angry he became, and grabbed him by the collar from behind.

"Who are you? Who told you to eat what I bought? ”

The man was suddenly lifted by the collar, his eyes widened in horror, and his hands were raised in a form of surrender.

"I'm here, I'm the one on duty here!"

"I didn't mean to eat what you bought, it's so fragrant, I can't help it......"

Gu Shanxu let go of his hand, his eyes staring at the food in his hand: "I remember that Grandpa Liu has always been on duty, who are you?" ”

The man hurriedly put his hands behind his back and pretended that he hadn't stolen food.

"You're talking about my grandfather, he's old and retired in the first half of the year, so I'll take over his shift."

He remembered that the man seemed to have said that there was no one here.

"And what did you mean by this empty tombstone just now?"

"My grandfather said there was no one here, so I thought, don't eat nothing, don't eat......" he muttered as if complaining, "Who knew you were back!" ”

The man reacted after speaking, and he was surprised: "No, don't you know that this is an empty tombstone?" I thought there was something wrong with you, you brought a whole bunch of stuff to visit the air every year. ”

Gu Shanxu couldn't believe his ears, he came to sweep the tomb every year, and he was lonely?

"What you say is true? Is this really nobody? Do you dare to swear? ”

There were three question marks in a row, which was enough to prove how shocked Gu Shanxu was.

"It must be true, otherwise how dare I steal food, what if I am haunted by ghosts, I won't be okay!"

The man looked at the pig's trotters on the ground with pity, and said openly: "Alas, if you come a little later, I will be able to eat them all!" ”

"Waste, waste!"

Gu Shanxu's mind was a mess.

Could it be that Gu Lei didn't deal with his mother's funeral at all, casually threw the body in an unknown place, and then bought this cemetery for the sake of face, right?

Or is his mother not dead?

——

More than ten years ago.

Yu Chuqin squatted on the carpet with a pile of clothes on the ground.

She wore lipstick in the color of bean paste, young and gentle, and picked up a piece of clothing and gestured to the little boy in front of her.

"Oh, this shirt is not bad, my son is just good-looking, follow me hahaha, fortunately I didn't follow your father, otherwise ......"

Speaking of which, she stuck out her tongue cutely.

Then he found a pair of brown bib pants and handed it to Gu Shanxu.

"Come, it's my son's birthday today, wear this set, let's go in the British gentleman's style, okay?"

"Hmm!"

The little boy nodded happily and ran in the direction of the fitting room with his clothes in his arms.

Yu Chuqin watched him leave with a smile, turned around and picked out a black and brown skirt from the closet, planning to wear a parent-child outfit with his son.

"Mom, I'm ready!"

After he changed his clothes, he rushed out for a hug as soon as possible.

"Okay, good, my son is so good, he can wear such complicated clothes at the age of three!"

Yu Chuqin did not hesitate to praise herself, and gently rubbed her son's hair.

She put a gentleman's hat on the boy's head.

Gu Shanxu reached out and touched the hat on his head, and couldn't wait to say, "Mom, I want to eat cake!" I want to wear the hat that the birthday boy wears! ”

"Okay, okay, let's go to the cake shop to get the cake first, okay?"