Su Nan and Song Tingchuan rushed back to Yunshi overnight.

Grandma Song is gone.

The first person to know about Grandma Song's death was Su Nan's sister-in-law, Li Xiaojuan.

Although Grandma Su is alone in the Song family's old house now, she will sit at the gate of the courtyard every morning, talking to passers-by who come and go, and it is like sitting there, waiting for some people who will not return.

The Song family and the Li family have always been good friends, and Li Xiaojuan almost grew up under the watchful eyes of Grandma Song.

So in order to alleviate the loneliness of the elderly, Li Xiaojuan will let Kai Geer go over to play with the elderly on weekends, and on weekdays, she will also go to chat with the elderly, and sometimes she will send some food.

This morning, Li Xiaojuan went next door as usual, but she didn't see a familiar figure at the door.

Li Xiaojuan thought it was the old man's occasional snooze, so she didn't make a noise.

But after more than an hour, before the old man appeared, Li Xiaojuan sensed that something was wrong.

She knocked on the door, but no one answered.

Li Xiaojuan panicked at that time, and hurriedly found someone to help knock the door open, and when she entered, Grandma Song was lying on the bed, already in a state of confusion.

Li Xiaojuan immediately dialed 120, but it was still too late.

By the time the ambulance arrived, the old man was out of breath.

Li Xiaojuan's mobile phone stored Song's father's phone, so she contacted Song's father as soon as possible.

Knowing the news of his mother's death, Song's father hurriedly put down the work in his hand and hurried to Yunshi.

By the time he arrived, the old man had already changed into a shroud.

Father Song was grief-stricken and knelt down in front of the old man without saying a word for a long time.

It was only after Li Xiaojuan reminded him that Song's father remembered to call Song Tingchuan.

By the time Su Nan and Song Tingchuan arrived, it was already late at night.

The Song family's old house was brightly lit, and there were noisy gongs and drums inside.

The custom of Yun City, when the old man dies, he must call a special team to come over and beat the gong and drum to do things.

One is to inform the neighbors that someone in the family has died, and those who hear it will come to mourn.

The second is that the death of the old man is a happy mourning, which means that the sufferings and hardships he has suffered in this world are over, and he can be regarded as having completed his merits and attaining positive results. Knock bang bang is to send the old man on his last ride.

The main hall has been converted into a mourning hall, and people are busy coming and going, but Song Tingchuan feels that everything around him has nothing to do with him.

He walked through the crowd, step by step, slowly towards the mourning hall.

Seeing the incense wax burning in the mourning hall, and the father of Song who knelt in front of the mourning hall, wearing linen and filial piety and burning paper money like a marionette, Song Tingchuan couldn't say what he felt in his heart, so he only said indifferently

"I'm back."

I am back.

Every time he came back from vacation, he would say these four words.

From the time he was willing to come back in his first year of high school, to now, every time he comes back in the past three years, it is these four words, without exception.

But only this time, there was no one he didn't resent or hate, looking at him with tears in his eyes, but smiling happily on his wrinkled face, leaning on a cane, and speaking to him in that weathered voice

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back"

He came back, but some never came back.

Father Song turned around, and the middle-aged man also had fine wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, his eyes were flushed, and his whole person was a little decadent.

He looked at Song Tingchuan, father and son looked at each other, and neither of them spoke.

After a long time, Father Song pulled the corners of his mouth with difficulty, and handed the money paper in his hand to Song Tingchuan.

"Do you want to burn some paper for her?"

Song Tingchuan glanced at him, then looked at the money paper in front of him, and after a few seconds of silence, he didn't answer, but turned around and ran out.