After being tied up in despair for 23 hours, Wang Xue was once again tempted by Su Yuncheng.

Eight seconds after the heartbeat, her heart was dead.

She thinks that Lin Nianhe likes Su Yuncheng not only because of his face, but also because of the same kind of attraction - they are all the same evil.

Wang Xue's heart ...... There was a hint of rejoicing.

"Stay here and don't leave."

Before Su Yuncheng left, he left a sentence for Wang Xue and a sharp stone.

Wang Xue nodded, stretched out her sour hand, and held the stone tremblingly.

It was as if that was the hope that would redeem her.

……

"Grandpa, grandpa."

Niu Wa had a pair of very dark and bright eyes, embedded in his excessively thin face like two briquettes. He is seven years old, much shorter than his peers, and looks like a five-year-old baby.

Uncle Niu kept looking at him, with a look that Niu Wa couldn't understand.

"What's wrong?" Uncle Niu asked.

Niu Wa pushed the plate to him: "Master, I'm full." ”

On the plate were five white and fat dumplings, with meat filling, and Grandpa only wrapped ten in total.

Niu Wa licked her lips, and finally asked the question that she had been wondering for a long time: "Master, why are you eating dumplings today?" "It's still pure white flour and pork filling.

Such dumplings, Niu Wa has never eaten them before, and they didn't have them during the Chinese New Year.

He didn't know where the white noodles and meat came from, he knew that it was delicious, and he knew that his grandfather hadn't touched a bite.

Uncle Niu pulled the corners of his mouth and whispered: "Go out and enter the store, you have to eat dumplings today." ”

Niu Wa nodded as if she didn't understand, and pushed the plate to the old man's side again: "Master, you eat, it's going to be cold." ”

Uncle Niu shook his head: "Ye is not hungry, you eat." ”

"Ye lied, Ye didn't eat in the morning."

Niu Wa has been dependent on her grandfather since she was sensible, and she has no father and mother's child, and she is so precocious that it makes people feel distressed.

He got down from the stool, moved to Uncle Niu, and brought a dumpling to his mouth.

The child's dark eyes stared at his grandfather, and he said seriously: "Master, you eat, it's delicious." ”

Uncle Niu looked at him, his big rough hand landed on the top of his head and rubbed it.

He said: "Baby, go out in the future, be smart, remember, if you see something wrong, you run, you run fast, no one can catch up with you......"

"You have to do things when you go out, as long as you can work, there's no shame in doing anything, you know?"

As he spoke, his eyes turned red.

Niu Wa blinked her eyes wide and tilted her head to look at him.

He didn't understand what Grandpa meant, but he nodded first.

Uncle Niu lowered his head and let go of the dumpling, and trembled and took out a handkerchief from his personal pocket that could not see the original color.

It may be blue or cyan.

Stuffing the handkerchief into the pocket that he had just sewn for Niu Wa the night before, Uncle Niu instructed: "Baby, I really can't live anymore and then take it out, remember, I will take it when I am young, but I can't let others see it." ”

Niu Wa felt that the small pocket of her heart was heavy, and when she touched it, it was a little hard.

"Grandpa......"

A long figure appeared in the simple courtyard of the Niu family, interrupting the conversation between the grandfather and grandson.

There are very few things in the yard, and only traces are left on some of the land, indicating that it was originally there.

The shadow moved slowly, blocking the light from the kitchen.

The man didn't speak, just stood there quietly, waiting.

Uncle Niu's hand trembled, and then rubbed the melon on Niu Wa's head.

He rubbed it a little urgently, as if he wanted to rub it a few more times.

"Baby, go out, you're fine, at home." Uncle Niu said.

Niu Wa tilted her head to look at the strange man by the door, nodded, and then handed the dumplings in her hand back to Uncle Niu's mouth, insisting: "Master, eat a dumpling." ”

Uncle Niu's eyes were very red.

"Hey, eat."

He opened his mouth, trembling, and took the dumplings into his mouth.

Niu Wa smiled, and the black briquettes bent into crescent moons.

"Master, I'll wait for you, let's eat dumplings tomorrow."

"Okay, okay."

Uncle Niu stood up, finally pinched Niu Wa's face, turned around, and walked to the man outside the door.

The dumplings are cold, and it takes a bit of effort to chew.

But it is the best dumpling that Uncle Niu has eaten in half a century.

"It's okay with the baby, don't scare the baby."

He said.

There was a pleading in his voice.

"Hmm."

Su Yuncheng responded in the same low voice, fulfilling his wishes.

Then they really walked out side by side like old friends who had known each other for many years.

"Grandpa, grandpa!"

Niu Wa suddenly ran out.

Uncle Niu stopped. He didn't look back, he looked up at the sunset, tears streaming down his cloudy eyes.

"Master, you come back early, I just played with you, I don't want to eat dumplings."

"You...... Come back early. ”

Niu Wa shouted at Uncle Niu's back.

Uncle Niu wiped his face and hid his tears in his palm.

He turned and waved away, his impatient tone the same as every day: "Go home and stay there, don't make a fuss." ”

Niu Wa didn't go home, and Uncle Niu didn't look back.

The grandfather and grandson who depend on each other, perhaps, will never see each other again.

On the way, Su Yuncheng asked, "Do you want to send him out of the country?" ”

Uncle Niu grinned, tears flowed into his mouth, and he didn't feel bitter: "Doctor Zhuang said that I don't have many days to live...... My son was gone when he was ten years old, and I picked up the cow baby...... You have to take care of it, what I do, the baby doesn't know, it's not up to him. ”

Su Yuncheng said: "Wang Cang and Wang Wei and their gang were all arrested, and no one could take him away smuggling. ”

"Alas......"

Uncle Niu sighed.

"He can't live even if he goes out," Su Yuncheng glanced at him, "and Wang Cang didn't plan to risk sending a child away at all." ”

"Oh, that's right."

Perhaps because he knew that his abacus had failed, Uncle Niu didn't react much after hearing the truth.

Su Yuncheng didn't speak again, and walked out of the village in silence.

Uncle Niu walked very slowly step by step.

When he reached the entrance of the village, he stopped, turned around, and looked in the direction of home.

There was a small black spot there, and he couldn't see the face clearly, but he knew that it was the baby he had picked up and raised for seven years.

He was still waiting for him, waiting for him to come home.

Uncle Niu stopped his tears for a long time and flowed down again.

His lips pursed, and after a while, he asked, "This baby, how will you live in the future?" ”

He's only a little bit old, he can't do any farm work, and he ...... in the future

Uncle Niu turned around and looked at Su Yuncheng's eyes with pleading: "I just want the baby to live...... Is it wrong to let the baby live? ”

Su Yuncheng was silent.

He was not good at words, and he couldn't say anything to convince him.

"You're not wrong, but am I wrong?"

A crisp and crisp voice sounded not far away.

Su Yuncheng turned his head and saw Lin Nianhe standing under the tree not far away.

He frowned, she didn't look at him.

Lin Nianhe walked over slowly, looked at Uncle Niu and continued: "Is it wrong for the two boys of the Zhang family who were kicked out of the house? Is it wrong for the soldiers guarding the border? You feel that you are just trying to make a living for a child, but you are doing it in a real way, in a way that hurts others and hurts the black land that gave birth to you and raised you. ”

"It's true that our country is very poor at the moment, but she has worked hard to protect everyone, and you should trust her."

"The Great Wall will not turn its back on the motherland;"

"The Yellow River and the Yangtze River will not turn their backs on the motherland;"

"The Kunlun Mountains will not turn their backs on the motherland;"

"We, not either."

(End of chapter)