On the fifth day of the first lunar month, in the early morning, a dazzling Phnom Penh appeared in the distant sky.

In the dim Lu family's mansion, a round beige kitten with green eyes climbed the stairs silently and stopped in front of a closed door.

Xiao Feng tilted his head, contracted his hind leg muscles a little bit, twisted his butt a few times from side to side, put on a surprise posture, aimed at the doorknob above, found the right time, and ejected violently. Stretching out his front paws in mid-air, he successfully opened the door with the help of his gravitational potential energy.

Xiao Sa, who fell back to the ground, licked the hair on his paws elegantly, and then used the solid-liquid duality of the kitten to get through the half-open door.

"Meow~Meow~"

Xiao Satie symbolically shouted twice at the big bed, but when there was no response, it jumped on the bedside table again, crawled along the upper edge of the headboard to the middle, and then jumped.

"Hmm-ahem!"

Lu You, who was asleep, had no idea what was going on, and was directly dizzy by this hand of deep-sea bomb.

“nm！”

Lu You clutched his chest with a faint pain, struggled to sit up, and glared at Xiao Satie, who was still pretending to be innocent in front of him.

If it weren't for the fluffy silk quilt on his body, Lu You felt that he was afraid that he would not be reborn for the second time and go to the Douqi Continent to stage "Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi".

"You! Do you want to kill the Lord? ”

Xiao Feng was not afraid at all, but squatted down by himself, bowing his head and combing the slightly messy hair on his chest.

"Damn! It's so arrogant! If I don't give you some color, you don't even know who is the master! ”

Lu You's right hand stretched out violently, grabbed Xiaosu's cat's head, pressed it on the quilt, slapped his fat body with his left hand, and shouted in his mouth: "I'm usually good to you, but for your cuteness, I really think I'm qualified to ride me on the head and?" Are you convinced? Convincing or not? Convinced or not! ”

The little cat was naturally unconvinced, and immediately twisted its body, broke free from Lu You's claws, hugged his arm with his backhand, opened his mouth to bite his fingers, and made a move without a shadow, and his legs kept kicking.

One person and one cat played for about ten minutes, and it was not until the dark night outside changed to a blue sky that it gradually subsided.

"Alright, I won't play with you anymore."

Lu You put Xiao Feng on the ground, patted the back of its head, and said, "Don't disturb my sleep in the future, otherwise you won't be given food." ”

After calming the kitten, washing up and changing into sportswear, Lu You left the room, came to the open space outside the house, and took a deep breath of fresh air.

"Ah~ It's still a good country air, fresh and sweet, with a strange luxury!"

"That's so good, how many times do you usually come back?"

The sudden voice startled Lu You. He immediately turned around, only to see his great-grandfather in a wheelchair, slowly pushed out of the house by the servants.

Lu You put away his casual attitude and said politely: "Good morning, grandpa." ”

"Hmm."

The great-grandfather waved his hand at the servant behind him and said, "I'm sorry for you in the morning, so you can go about your business first." ”

"Yes, sir."

The servant bowed down respectfully and silently stepped aside.

"Dabao, you push me to go outside."

"Yes, grandpa."

Lu You ran behind his great-grandfather and pushed his wheelchair to the manor outside, while the servant followed him as if he were leaving.

Lu You looked at the blanket on his great-grandfather's legs and asked, "Grandpa, you have been in a wheelchair for more than half a year, and your health is still not better?" ”

In the middle of August last year, my great-grandfather accidentally fell while taking a bath. If you are a young person with strong resilience, it will hurt for a few days if you fall. But my great-grandfather is already in his old age, and a small bump can lead to serious consequences.

Lu Buyu immediately sent his great-grandfather to the hospital for examination, although he did not find much wrong, but since then, his mental state has declined rapidly, and his body has all kinds of problems, and he will soon be unable to walk on the ground.

Great-grandfather tried to clench his fists, but no matter how much his brain signaled, his fingers were like computers disconnected from the Internet, and nothing responded.

Great-grandfather didn't continue to try, but smiled and said open-mindedly: "That's the case, people are getting old, and their physical functions are also degrading, and if you want to restore your previous spirit, I'm afraid you can't do it." ”

"You can't say that. I read the news that someone can live to be more than 120 years old, and you are where you are. ”

"You don't have to comfort me, I know my body."

The great-grandfather leaned back in his chair and took in the entire verdant manor, and said lightly: "I have lived for nearly a hundred years, and I have tasted all the tastes of life." I have experienced the most difficult times, but I have also enjoyed the luxury of the new era, experienced the happiness of falling in love with others, and endured the pain of the loss of a loved one.

I'm tired of this world, and there's nothing left for me to be nostalgic for. One day in the future, I'm gone, and I hope you don't take any rescue measures.

I don't want to see myself stuffed with tubes, and I don't want to waste public resources just to survive. There will always be an end in life, and on the day I leave, you just need to say goodbye and let me go on the road with peace of mind. ”

Lu You had a lot of words in his heart, but he didn't know how to speak. In the past, he was able to tell Tang Wan, Li Yu and others a bunch of big truths, all of which were based on the life experience of two lifetimes.

But the old man in front of him has experienced far more things than Lu You, and telling him the truth has a kind of sense of playing a big knife in front of Guan Gong.

Seeing that Lu You didn't speak, his great-grandfather comforted: "Birth, old age, sickness and death, human nature, you don't have to be too sad." ”

Sad?

I can only say that there is one point, not too much.

In Lu You's eyes, his great-grandfather is more of a symbol of an elder, and his feelings are mostly respectful, and there is almost no bond between relatives.

Although he and his great-grandfather are related by blood, they don't spend much time together, and even their biological parents are just familiar strangers if they don't spend time cultivating a relationship with each other.

Moreover, there are several generations between the two, and the blood relationship is so thin that it is basically negligible.

"Uh...... Grandpa, you think too much, to be honest, I'm not particularly sad. ”

"You kid!"

Great-grandfather was laughed at by him, if it weren't for his own health, he would definitely get up and punch Lu You twice.

"Forget it, for the sake of the New Year, I won't worry about you."

"Thank you grandpa for letting it go."

During the conversation, the two came to a vegetable field in the manor. In the dim earth, several rows of unknown green seedlings were neatly inserted, and there was a man-made cement ditch next to it.

"Your family, are you going back tomorrow?"

"Well, I'll leave early tomorrow."

"Exactly."

Great-grandfather raised his right hand tremblingly, pointed to the field below, and said, "The vegetables in the field below are all planted by your grandfather and your grandmother, pure green, no pesticides, and you can pick back what you want to eat." ”

"Then you're welcome."

Lu You rolled up his sleeves and walked towards the field. When he was halfway there, a smell that hit the depths of his soul hit his face, and he stopped abruptly.

This smell is like throwing the reincarnation of human grains into a sealed jar, fermenting for seven or forty-nine days, and then taking out the smell, so that Lu You's eyes can't open.

Adhering to the excellent quality of the eldest husband's ability to bend and stretch, Lu You returned to his great-grandfather very wisely, and said seriously: "These dishes are grandpa's hard work, I won't take them, and leave them for you to eat." ”

Great-grandfather saw through his careful thoughts at a glance and said, "Don't pretend, isn't it just smelly, I'll have someone pick a bag for you later." ”

"Thank you grandpa for your understanding."

"Really, if you want to eat good things, but you don't want to pay the price, the benefits are all taken up by you."

Lu You shrugged his shoulders and said without changing his face: "It is the instinct of living beings to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and I just follow my instincts." ”

"Crooked! Human beings are human because, in contrast to other living beings, they can think, have the ability to know themselves, and do not completely submit to instincts and desires. ”

"Well, you're old, you're right."

"You little!"

Great-grandfather felt like he had punched cotton, and he couldn't do it. No matter how much you say, people don't accept your logic at all, and it's no different from saying it.

Seeing that his great-grandfather was about to jump up from his wheelchair and beat himself, Lu You hurriedly said, "Grandpa, it's time for breakfast, let's go back quickly!" ”

After speaking, Lu You didn't give his great-grandfather time to react, and pushed the wheelchair back the same way.

was interrupted by Lu You, and his great-grandfather didn't bother to bother with him, so he asked instead: "Which major are you going to choose in college, and what kind of work do you do after graduation?" ”

"I studied mathematics and applied mathematics at Capital University, and studied all the way to a doctorate, and engaged in research in basic disciplines."

"Do you have any plans to go abroad?"

Lu You pondered for a long time, and said truthfully: "Yes." After four years of undergraduate study, I will consider studying abroad. ”

"Have you decided which country to go to?"

"It's still under consideration, it's either France or Emerica."

"It's good to have a goal, but you need help from home."

This answer surprised Lu You. After all, great-grandfather was a person who had lived through that era, and it stands to reason that he would not have a good impression of these countries, and he was ready to be rejected.

Great-grandfather didn't have to look back, he could roughly imagine Lu You's expression at this time.

"Why, I didn't think I'd say yes, did I?"

"It was a surprise. Under normal circumstances, shouldn't you tell me to stay in the country and serve the country? ”

"It's not like you're not coming back when you go out. It's like the national merits of that era, aren't there a few who also practiced their skills and then returned to China to serve? The essence of studying abroad is the pursuit of knowledge, and it does not involve the level of patriotism.

But when you go out, you can't go with your heart. You always have to remember where your roots are. Although your home is not good, it is still your home, don't forget about it when you see something new outside.

Just like the one a few years ago, when you go out and take two breaths of air, you feel that you have evolved and start to belittle the country. You yourself went out from here, and to devalue your country is essentially to devalue yourself. ”

Lu You naturally understands this truth, similar to his son scolding his father for being a turtle, and he has become a turtle son.

"Grandpa, don't worry, my idol is Qiu Lao. So, I will definitely be back. ”

"I won't say more, you decide your future. If you have trouble academically, just tell your family that your family may not be able to help you, but there must be someone you know who can help you. ”

Thinking of his hard academic research career in his previous life, Lu You suddenly burst into tears.

[Is this the big family!] It's so domineering! Loved, loved! 】

"However, you can't take advantage of the power of others and take the initiative to bully others. Our Lu family is to back you up, not to be an umbrella, and the relationship cannot be abused. ”

"I know, Grandpa."

(End of chapter)