From Cheng Jianghe's anxious words, he also heard a trace of ominousness, and then his whole heart boiled, and the pace under his feet became faster and faster, and he couldn't wait to fly.

In the Dragon Imperial Garden, Bao Xiaoqi was still waiting anxiously, and at this time, Cheng Jiangshui's phone also called, and Bao Xiaoqi cried silently: "Sister, Dad can't find it, I'm in a hurry...... Oh oh I see, I know! ”

As soon as he put down the phone, he saw Cheng Jianghe rushing in in a hurry, and asked with a panicked face, "Xiaoqi, what's going on?" ”

Bao Xiaoqi's eyes were red and swollen, and she hurriedly explained: "Originally, Dad fell asleep in the back room, and I took care of the two children, but when I turned my head, Dad disappeared, and I couldn't leave." I'm worried about Dad's mental state, you said that if something happens to him, how can I explain it to you? ”

Looking at Bao Xiaoqi's frightened expression, Cheng Jianghe hurriedly comforted: "Don't worry, think about it, where do you usually take your dad for a walk?" ”

Bao Xiaoqi settled down and tried to recall: "That is, in our community, playing chess and cards with some old people, I didn't dare to go to a distant place." ”

Cheng Jianghe tried to stabilize his heart, nodded, and hurriedly said: "Okay, you stay here, don't go anywhere, I'll go out to find it, and you will also inform Jiang Hai and my sister." ”

"I know, I know!"

After saying that, Cheng Jianghe left in a hurry, although Cheng Jianghe arrived, Bao Xiaoqi was already worried and secretly blamed herself. Wandering from side to side in the living room, stomping his feet from time to time, trying to rush out the door several times.

The child's crying came, and Bao Xiaoqi was entangled for a moment, so she could only give up helplessly.

Cheng Jianghe was in the community in a hurry, looking for it like a headless fly, and when he met someone, he went up to ask Cheng Jia'an, but he shook his head and didn't see anyone. So he was anxious to expand the scope of searching, and just came to the outside of the community, he met Cheng Jianghai who was running all the way.

"Jiang Hai!"

Cheng Jianghai, who was sweating profusely, panted: "Brother, you're here, where is Dad, have you found it?" ”

Cheng Jianghe stroked his forehead sadly, and said worriedly: "No, I've searched all over here and outside, and no one has seen where my dad went?" He's not in a good position, where do you think he can go? ”

Cheng Jianghai rubbed his fingers vigorously, trying to think about it, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Brother, you say...... Do you think Dad will go to the ancestral house? ”

Cheng Jianghe hesitated: "Can he get back in that state?" ”

Cheng Jianghai said worriedly: "I don't know, let's go and see it first." ”

"Yes, yes, let's go, let's go!"

Waiting for the two brothers to rush back to the ancestral house in Jiuzi Lane, when they stood in front of the door, they were horrified to find that the door was open. The two looked at each other for a while, and walked in in horror, only to see Cheng Jia'an sitting on the empty sofa in a daze, staring blankly at a rectangular smudge on the wall directly in front of him, where family photos used to be hung.

The father was safe and sound, and the two of them immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and rushed all the way, only then did they quickly have weak legs and tendons, and almost collapsed to the ground.

Without further ado, Cheng Jianghai hurriedly took out the phone and called Cheng Jiangshui to report his safety: "Sister, Dad has found it, in the ancestral house, okay, we will wait for you!" ”

After taking a breath and carefully identifying Cheng Jia'an's state, he clearly entered a confused realm again, but he didn't know how this mentally confused old man found his ancestral house, and what was the reason for returning here?

With questions, Cheng Jianghe stepped forward gently, rubbed his father's back, and blamed softly: "Dad, why did you come here alone?" ”

Cheng Jia'an didn't answer Cheng Jianghe, but pointed to the mark on the wall, and said tremblingly: "Where is our family photo?" ”

Cheng Jianghe felt a pang in his heart and said bitterly: "Dad, have you forgotten again?" The family photo is in Jianghai's new home! ”

"A new home?" Cheng Jia'an said in a daze: "Isn't this our home?" ”

"Well, this is our home! It's our home! Cheng Jianghe choked up and responded.

Cheng Jia'an frowned, his aging cheeks with thick confusion, looked around at the empty room, and muttered, "But ...... But why is there nothing left? The family portraits are gone, and the bottles and cans that your mother has all over are gone...... By the way, what about your mother, why did your mother go? ”

Father's murmuring and confusion are really sad, Cheng Jianghai next to him suddenly has red eyes, his face is full of self-blame, and he said with a crying voice: "Dad, everything is here, it's all there, Mom is also there!" Go back, I'll take all my stuff back for you and put it away. ”

Cheng Jia'an nodded with relief: "Well, you can't lose it, it's all your mother's heart, lose the same, she should be angry again." ”

Cheng Jianghai choked back tears and hurriedly promised: "I didn't lose it, I didn't lose it, it's all here!" ”

After a while, Cheng Jiangshui also stumbled in, her sweat sticking her hair all over her forehead, and she asked in a panic: "What's the matter, why did Dad come here alone?" ”

Cheng Jianghe said with a bitter face: "We don't know either." ”

Without caring about blaming the two brothers, Cheng Jiangshui hurriedly stepped forward, squatted down to check his father's body, and asked nervously, "Dad, what's wrong with you?" ”

Looking at Cheng Jiangshui's pretty face close at hand, Cheng Jia'an's turbid mind seemed to be injected with a clear stream, cleansing his muddy nerves, he stretched out his hand and stroked his daughter's cheek with trembling, trembling his lips and said, "This ...... Isn't this my river? ”

Fog quickly rose in Cheng Jiangshui's eyes, and he choked sadly: "Dad, it's me, it's me!" What happened to you? ”

Hearing her daughter's cry, her index finger was stained with her tears, like cold dewdrops, Cheng Jia'an's cloudy eyes finally had a trace of clarity, and then they overflowed with mist, and sighed sadly: "Hey, in this life, Dad owes you a child." Dad shouldn't leave you alone in the group, Dad shouldn't agree to you marrying Yi'an, Dad shouldn't let you support this family......"

"Dad, don't talk about this."

All kinds of things in the past, with Cheng Jia'an's guilt, this is a sentence of self-blame and remorse from her father, which pierced Cheng Jiangshui's heart, and her tears gushed out wildly.

Cheng Jianghai hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Dad, are you sober?" ”

"Jiang Hai!"

Cheng Jia'an turned his head slowly, he recognized it, isn't this his most stubborn and beloved old man. It was the old man who had a headache but was also relieved, and it was the child that his wife loved the most and was most worried about.

Cheng Jianghai choked back tears, and said incoherently: "Alas, Dad, I'm here!" I'm here! ”

"River!"

Cheng Jia'an turned to the other side, this is the proudest and most worry-free eldest son of him and his wife.

Cheng Jianghe responded with tears in his eyes: "Alas, Dad, I'm here too, I'm here too!" ”

Looking at the three children around his knees, Cheng Jia'an's cloudy eyes burst out with an inexplicable brilliance, and finally came to his senses, and he muttered in a low voice: "Good, good, good, all here, all here, this is good, this is good." It's all there! Our home is complete, well, help me up! ”

The three of them hurriedly helped Cheng Jia'an to stand up, and came to the back room tremblingly, on those empty old furniture, especially the wooden bed made by Qu Damin back then, Cheng Jia'an touched and touched the west, and his eyebrows and eyes were full of thick memories.

Then he slowly sat on the edge of the bed, waved his hand and refused the children's support, and slowly lay down, turned sideways and gently stroked the place where Li Xiulan had slept, pulling the wrinkled corners of his mouth, and muttering to himself.

"Xiulan, do you see that? The children are here, our family is still there, and it is still the home you will never forget. But ah, our family has become bigger now, there are grandchildren, and the small family has become everyone. Hey, I really want you to see it, how nice it would be to take a family photo again. I'm too old to go back to where we used to be. Hehe, I still remember when you first met you, how young and beautiful you were at that time, and you were bolder than me......"

In his cloudy mind, a desolate and high-pitched Xintianyou sounded, enveloping Cheng Jia'an's thoughts, shuttling through time and space, and bringing back those youthful times that he engraved in his heart.

There is Li Xiulan's smiling face, and there is a whisper that will always echo in her ears......

Li Xiulan: Let me ask you, do you like each other?

Cheng Jia'an: What did you say?

Li Xiulan: Even if I am a woman, I want to live a backbone and bright life, without asking for charity or pity. I want to ask, are you still compatible with such a woman?

Cheng Jia'an: I'm in the middle of it!

Li Xiulan: Brother Jia'an, are you really relieved to give me all the money you have saved for so long?

Cheng Jia'an: Well, because I believe in you!

Li Xiulan: Brother Jia'an, thank you, thank you for believing me!

Li Xiulan: Brother Jia'an, if you leave, I will write to you, and I will miss you......

Li Xiulan: Brother Jia'an, I'll wait for you! Waiting for that day to come!

Li Xiulan: Brother Jia'an, I'll wait for you......

Li Xiulan: Jia'an, I am happy, I am complete......

…… That is the most beautiful picture of Cheng Jia'an and Li Xiulan's life, and it is the bright years that he will remember all his life.

He would often weep silently in the dead of night, speaking to the brightest twinkle of the stars, words that only he and his wife could understand.

Long solitude is the most cruel and ruthless.

Those thoughts that don't put love and longing on their lips, but they are boiling all the time in their hearts, like knives twisting their hearts, is the most difficult work.

Cheng Jia'an was lying on the bed sadly, his cheeks were already full of old tears, and the three children stood beside him sadly, wanting to come forward to comfort but were stopped by Cheng Jia'an weakly raising his hand, and listening to him still murmuring between tears: "Happiness, isn't it happiness, we are jumping in the bitter water, we don't have any big wishes, we just want to taste the happiness of ordinary people." Xiulan, with you and these children, we are complete, without regrets, and happy ......"

At that moment, Cheng Jia'an smiled happily and contentedly, gently closed his eyes, and the last tear from the corner of his eyes gently slid down, but it was crystal clear, like a perfect pearl, interpreting the definition of the happiest life without taking away a trace of regret in the world.

This ordinary old man cultivated his descendants with his life's ordinary achievements, passed on his precious spiritual wealth to the next generation, and said goodbye to the world with satisfaction at the age of 75.

On the Gobi Desert, the bleak wind rose again, whimpering and wandering, like the last admonition and expectation left by Cheng Jia'an. The tombstones of Cheng Jia'an and Li Xiulan stand side by side, buried together, and they will always be nestled together for the rest of their lives.

The three pairs of children bowed down in unison with tears in their eyes......