Zhou Geng still clearly remembers that when he was a child when he was plowing the land with his father, the ox stepped on the wrong foot and poured a seedling, and the seedling broke off in the small pit. No matter how much my father deplored it, it could no longer stand upright.

Zhou Geng asked his father: "Why does a seedling die when it says it is dead?"

His father told him, "The seedlings are too brittle." ”

My father didn't talk much, but he was very careful when he cultivated the fields. He is not like an ox, he cherishes the seedlings of the land more. Because he valued the land and farming, he was illiterate and gave his son such a name.

Zhou Gengguo really likes to plow the fields, and he often follows behind his father and looks at the green life in these fields.

When the nails grow, they will grow again when they are cut off, the leaves will turn yellow and fall again, and they will replant the next year. So, is there anything in this world that suddenly has less and never comes back?

Zhou Geng has been thinking about this problem. His thinking is stupid in the eyes of his peers. So, those little children don't bother to play with him. Without playmates, you have more time to observe and think. Zhou Geng enjoyed himself.

Growing up a little, Zhou Geng is still like this, he doesn't like to talk, and he won't take the initiative to say hello, even if he meets the elders in the village, he will smile at most, bow down and retreat to the side to wait for others to walk by, and then take a quick step.

This state of affairs did not change until he met Jinbao.

Jinbao was at the same table as him in private school.

Although he valued the fields, his father still knew the benefits of studying, and he saved money for Zhou Geng's private school. My father's mind is very simple, and he can read a few words, so he is not easy to be coaxed by the rich man.

Because he doesn't like to talk and often doesn't answer his husband's questions, Zhou Geng is often called by his husband to the punishment station outside the house. He liked the feeling of being punished, and although he was a little aggrieved, he could observe the flowers and insects in the garden without presumption. This grievance was erased.

Until he meets Jinbao.

Jinbao is a person who talks a lot, and there are so many that it is annoying. Therefore, he will also often be called out by the husband to punish the station.

In this way, Zhou Geng has one more companion.

At first, Zhou Geng didn't want to have more people like this around him. If there is one more person standing beside him, then what he sees and thinks seems to be known by others.

However, he was gradually attracted to Jinbao because of what Jinbao knew about the outside world.

Jinbao has an uncle who runs errands for wealthy businessmen outside and is well-informed. Every time he came back, Kimbell's uncle would tell a lot of new and interesting things, including people who would fly in the sky.

Zhou Geng didn't believe that anyone could fly in the sky at first, but Jinbao vouched for it with his father, and Zhou Geng believed it. Zhou Geng feels most sorry for his father, he will not joke with his father.

Because of Jinbao, Zhou Geng began to envy Jinbao's uncle, began to yearn for the outside world, and even forgot the questions he had been thinking about for a long time. Until one day, the aunt next door ran over to her out of breath and said, "Cultivator, go home quickly, something happened to your mother!"

Zhou Geng ran home, and Jinbao followed him. Because he was running too fast, he also knocked over a cart of dates and a cart of vegetables in the market.

Back at home on the outskirts of the city, the yard was crowded with neighbors. The father, who was surrounded by them, was holding his mother. Zhou Geng saw that his mother was lying softly in his father's arms, and when he saw him coming back, he finally smiled with relief, and stretched out his hand at him with difficulty, but finally drooped down.

The father, who had never shed a tear, wailed, and the women of the neighborhood began to weep under the leadership of the aunt.

An uncle patted his head and shouted at the stunned Zhou Geng: "Silly boy, cry!

The words "your mother is gone" finally woke Zhou Geng up. Although his mother's eyes were still ajar, she could no longer call his name.

That night, his father and he hastily buried his mother.

From then on, his mother's place was vacant at the dining table in the courtyard, and his father began to live with him like a year.

Zhou Geng later learned that his mother was hit by a carriage in the city and died.

The carriage that killed the person belonged to the Zhou family in the city. Yes, he also has the surname Zhou, but he is not related to Zhou Geng, but he has the same surname.

The Zhou family's wealth in the city was very powerful, and the carriage hit and killed people, but they just sent someone to send some silver.

The father threw the silver back angrily, and just said to his son: "Baby, you will be productive in the future!"

Since then, Zhou Geng has rarely been punished for studying in private schools. However, his relationship with Jinbao is getting better and better.

In the middle of the night, after Zhou Geng finished his homework, he stared at the stars in the sky for a long time. There was infinite sorrow in his heart, but no matter how strong this sorrow was, it could not resurrect his mother, and there was no one in his life to replace her. He finally knew that something was suddenly missing and he could never come back.

During the New Year's holidays, offerings are placed, incense is lit, and then kowtows, and the father and son are often relatively silent.

The Zhou family in the city is still wealthy, and the days are still boiling oil, and occasionally people are killed and injured by carriages, and they will also let their subordinates send a little silver, but no one is willing to throw the silver back like Zhou Geng's father.

Later, one day, Zhou Geng's father also suddenly fell. He was sick from overwork, and vomited a lot of black blood in one night before he died.

That night, his father stopped him and told him not to go to the doctor. He just grabbed his son's hand tightly, and at the end, he said: "Baby, you will be out in the future!"

Before he could get his breath, his father left.

There is one less person in this world, suddenly less and never to come back.

There was one less figure in the yard carrying a rake or hoe in and out every day.

It didn't take long for his friend Jin Baolai to say goodbye to him, saying that his uncle had been injured in an accident, but his uncle had a bit of a friendship with the steward, who saw his uncle as pitiful and allowed his uncle to recommend someone to take the place. Kimbell's uncle didn't have a family and didn't have children, so he gave Kimble the opportunity.

Jinbao is going to another big city to run errands for people who are richer and more powerful than the Zhou family.

Zhou Gengyi gritted his teeth and decided to leave with Jinbao.

He went to the field and uprooted the seedlings in the field one by one. He is not in the village, and the seedlings are destined to die little by little and then be covered with weeds. This field and the family's cattle belong to the Zhou family, and now they need to be returned.

The sudden absence of a person in the village is like a tree suddenly falling in the middle of the woods, and few people pay attention to these things.

It's just that the two tombs in the village are vacancies that can never be filled in Zhou Geng's heart. Unless he's dead too.

It's been a long time since I've stayed up late. I'm slow to type, and I'm slow to conceive the plot, and I only wrote a few thousand words in the second half of the night last night, and I'll update them all today. Thank you for your support!

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